The Great Moment

The Great Moment

83 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 18, 1944

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.

The Great Moment

83 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 18, 1944

The Great Moment
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Paramount
Original title The Great Moment
Directors Preston Sturges
Writers René Fülöp-Miller, Preston Sturges

Cast

Joel McCrea

as William Thomas Green Morton

Betty Field

as Elizabeth Morton

Harry Carey

as Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

as Eben Frost

Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

Julius Tannen

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Edwin Maxwell

as Vice-President of Medical Society

Porter Hall

as President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pangborn

as Dr. Heywood

Grady Sutton

as Homer Quimby

Donivee Lee

as Betty Morton

Harry Hayden

as Judge Shipman

Torben Meyer

as Dr. Dahlmeyer

Victor Potel

as First Dental Patient

Thurston Hall

as Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald

as The Priest

Roscoe Ates

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

Hank Bell

as Onlooker (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

Hank Worden

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)