The Story of Louis Pasteur

…Muni’s most enduring vehicles, but The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) certainly was; Muni won his only Academy Award for his performance as the French scientist, and the picture received an Oscar nomination. In The White Angel (1936) Francis was less convincing as Florence Nightingale than Muni had been as…

…with Warner Brothers to make The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). Despite a shoestring budget, the biopic of the French microbiologist was a major hit, and Muni finally won an Oscar for best actor. After playing a Chinese farmer in the 1937 adaptation of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, Muni…