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

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