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

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