Drama
The Magic Alphabet
📅 Saturday, 10 October 1942⏱️ 11m
🎬 Directed by Jacques Tourneur🏢 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
★ 6.5
★★★★★
TMDB Rating
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins.
Cast & Crew
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Stephen McNally
Dr. Christiaan Eijkman
Dorothy Morris
Secretary (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Scientist (uncredited)
🎬 Directed byJacques Tourneur
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