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The Great Moment (1944) The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have

The Great Moment (1944)

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.

Cast:
William Thomas Green Morton: Joel McCrea
Elizabeth Morton: Betty Field
Professor John C. Warren: Harry Carey
Eben Frost: William Demarest
Dr. Horace Wells: Louis Jean Heydt
Professor Charles T. Jackson: Julius Tannen
Vice-President of Medical Society: Edwin Maxwell
President Franklin Pierce: Porter Hall
Dr. Heywood: Franklin Pangborn
Homer Quimby: Grady Sutton
Betty Morton: Donivee Lee
Judge Shipman: Harry Hayden
Dr. Dahlmeyer: Torben Meyer
First Dental Patient: Victor Potel
Senator Borland: Thurston Hall
The Priest: J. Farrell MacDonald
Frederick T. Johnson: George Anderson
Whackpot: Sig Arno
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden: Roscoe Ates
Onlooker: Hank Bell
Jackson's Butler: Wilson Benge
Mr. Stone: Al Bridge
Mrs. Whitman: Georgia Caine
Courtroom Dissenter: Horace B. Carpenter
Morton's Daughter: Janet Chapman
Unknown Reporter: Kenneth Chryst
Frightened Patient: Chester Conklin
Janitor: Heinie Conklin
Mr. Burnett, Pharmacist: Jimmy Conlin
Artist: Laurie Douglas
Charles - Morton's Cashier: Robert Dudley
Massachusetts Medical Society Man: Franklyn Farnum
Young Mother: Sylvia Field
Morton's Clinic Manager: Byron Foulger
Mr. Abbott, Surgical Patient: Robert Frandsen
Band Leader: Jack George
Roberts, Morton's Butler: Robert Greig
Mr. Smith: Alfred Hall
Anesthesia Demonstration Spectator: Kenner G. Kemp
Dr. Wells' Patient: Esther Howard
Presidential Secretary: Arthur Hoyt
Mr. Whitman: Arthur Stuart Hull
Patient with Swollen Jaw: Sheldon Jett
Little Boy: Donnie Kerr
Senator from Georgia: Joe King
Trailer Narrator: Lou Marcelle
Dr. Warren's Assistant Surgeon: Tom McGuire
Dr. Hayden: George Melford
Dental Patient: Esther Michelson
Man in Courtroom: Harold Miller
Morton's Daughter when older: Tricia Moore
John, Hospital Porter: Frank Moran
Policeman: Paul Newlan
Secretary: Ed O'Neill
Mr. Gruber: Emory Parnell
Newspaper Artist: Keith Richards
Colonel Lawson: Dewey Robinson
New York Herald Reporter: Henry Roquemore
Mr. Chamberlain: Harry Rosenthal
Morton's Son: Billy Sheffield
Horace Greeley: Reginald Sheffield
Surgical Patient (Leg Operation): Sheila Sheldon
Mr. Gruber's Clerk: Walter Soderling
Man at Bar: Harry Tenbrook
Reporter: Harry Tyler
Bartender at Costello's: Max Wagner
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates: Hank Worden

Written by: René Fülöp-Miller, Preston Sturges, Charles Brackett

Director: Preston Sturges

Production: Paramount Pictures

Release date: 06 Sep 1944
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