The Great Moment
Preston Sturges1944-07-18
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
5.8
83 min
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
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Joel McCrea | William Thomas Green Morton | Unowned |
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Betty Field | Elizabeth Morton | Unowned |
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Harry Carey | Professor John C. Warren | Unowned |
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William Demarest | Eben Frost | Unowned |
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Louis Jean Heydt | Dr. Horace Wells | Unowned |
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Julius Tannen | Dr. Charles T. Jackson | Unowned |
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Edwin Maxwell | Vice-President of Medical Society | Unowned |
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Porter Hall | President Franklin Pierce | Unowned |
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Franklin Pangborn | Dr. Heywood | Unowned |
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Grady Sutton | Homer Quimby | Unowned |
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Donivee Lee | Betty Morton | Unowned |
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Harry Hayden | Judge Shipman | Unowned |
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Torben Meyer | Dr. Dahlmeyer | Unowned |
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Victor Potel | First Dental Patient | Unowned |
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Thurston Hall | Senator Borland | Unowned |
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J. Farrell MacDonald | The Priest | Unowned |
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Roscoe Ates | Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Hank Bell | Onlooker (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Franklyn Farnum | Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Byron Foulger | Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Hank Worden | Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Arthur Hoyt | Presidential Secretary (uncredited) | Unowned |