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

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