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

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