The Great Moment

Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!

Duration: 83 min

Release date: 1944-07-18

IMDB

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.

Comedy Drama

The Great Moment

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as William Thomas Green Morton

as Elizabeth Morton

as Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

William Demarest

Louis Jean Heydt

Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

as Vice-President of Medical Society

as President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pangborn

Franklin Pangborn

as Homer Quimby

as Betty Morton

as Judge Shipman

as Dr. Dahlmeyer

as First Dental Patient

as Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

as Onlooker (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Franklyn Farnum

as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)

as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

René Fülöp-Miller

René Fülöp-Miller

Buddy G. DeSylva

Buddy G. DeSylva

Executive Producer

Original Music Composer

Stephen Seymour

Stephen Seymour

Director of Photography

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