They are scrubbing down Apartment 507. Men and women in white lab coats, protected by plastic masks, are vacuuming radioactive dust from the wooden floorboards and scraping radium off the walls. Pa… ...

Radium Girls is led by Joey King of Ramona and Beezus fame (OK, The Kissing Booth too), playing a teenage employee of a corporation that’s slowly been poisoning its young female watch dial ...

In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded the second of her two Nobel Prizes, both connected to her discovery of radium. The radioactive element was initially hailed as a miracle substance, credited with curing ...

They would have to dip that brush in their mouth six times for each dial.” Though the Radium Girls, as they came to be called, were paid well for their work, it ultimately cost many their lives.

WILLIMANTIC — The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. The play, written by D.W. Gregory, tells the ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a ...

“It’s based on a true story of the girls in the 1920s who painted the luminescent watch dials,” said Director Joanna Henry. “They painted it with paint to make it glow.

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.

Foothill Theatre Arts production of “Radium Girls,” the true story of workers who became deathly ill from the radium-laced paint they used to make watch dials luminescent, runs through June 12.

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; Sourcebooks (479 pages, $26.99) The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and ...

OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory ...

Inspired by a true story, “Radium Girls” traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. ... Despite ‘Radium Girls’ being a period piece, ...