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The Great Moment
1944, Jul 18
1h 23m
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
Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Homer Quimby
Louis Jean Heydt
Dr. Horace Wells
Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
William Demarest
Eben Frost
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient
Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer
Porter Hall
President Franklin Pierce
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
Edwin Maxwell
Vice-President of Medical Society
Franklin Pangborn
Dr. Heywood
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest
Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)
Julius Tannen
Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Donivee Lee
Betty Morton
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
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