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

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