Comedy 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.
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Written by
René Fülöp-Miller
Edwin Maxwell
Vice-President of Medical Society
Joel McCrea
William Thomas Green Morton
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
William Demarest
Eben Frost
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Porter Hall
President Franklin Pierce
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
Grady Sutton
Homer Quimby
Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Franklin Pangborn
Dr. Heywood
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest
Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Dr. Horace Wells
Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
Julius Tannen
Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient
Donivee Lee
Betty Morton

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