The Magic Alphabet

Name: The Magic Alphabet
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Genre: Drama
Released: 1942-10-10
Duration: 11 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: John Nesbitt, Stephen McNally, Dorothy Morris, Emmett Vogan

6.5(2)NR194211mEN

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

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.

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