< The Great Moment (1944)

MOVIE | 1h 23m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 6.2 (1_154)

Biography, Drama | The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

• Director: Preston Sturges
• Writer: René Fülöp-Miller
• Writer: Preston Sturges
• Writer: Charles Brackett
• Writer: Ernst Laemmle
• Writer: W.L. River
• Joel McCrea (39) - William Thomas Green Morton
• Betty Field (28) - Elizabeth Morton
• Harry Carey (66) - Professor John C. Warren
• William Demarest (52) - Eben Frost
• Louis Jean Heydt (41) - Dr. Horace Wells
• Julius Tannen (64) - Professor Charles T. Jackson
• Edwin Maxwell (58) - Vice-President of Medical Society
• Porter Hall (56) - President Franklin Pierce
• Franklin Pangborn (55) - Dr. Heywood
• Grady Sutton (38) - Homer Quimby
• Donivee Lee (22) - Betty Morton
• Harry Hayden (62) - Judge Shipman
• Torben Meyer (60) - Dr. Dahlmeyer
• Victor Potel (55) - First Dental Patient
• Thurston Hall (62) - Senator Borland
• J. Farrell MacDonald (69) - The Priest
• George Anderson (58) - Frederick T. Johnson
• Sig Arno (49) - Whackpot
• Roscoe Ates (49) - Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden
• Hank Bell (52) - Onlooker