The Great Moment
- Comedy
- Drama
7/18/1944
83
NR
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
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.
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Cast
Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
Betty FieldElizabeth Morton- Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
- William DemarestEben Frost
- Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
- Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
- Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
- Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce
- Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
- Grady SuttonHomer Quimby
Donivee LeeBetty Morton- Harry HaydenJudge Shipman
- Torben MeyerDr. Dahlmeyer
- Victor PotelFirst Dental Patient
- Thurston HallSenator Borland
- J. Farrell MacDonaldThe Priest