Movie: The Magic Alphabet

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John Nesbitt
John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Stephen McNally
Stephen McNally

Dr. Christiaan Eijkman

Dorothy Morris
Dorothy Morris

Secretary (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan
Emmett Vogan

Scientist (uncredited)

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    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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    1942-10-10

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