The Magic Alphabet (1942)

Director: 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.

Cast

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Stephen McNally

Dr. Christiaan Eijkman

Dorothy Morris

Secretary (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan

Scientist (uncredited)