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

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