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

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