The Great Moment

The Great Moment (1944)

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

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.

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  • Release Date: 1944-07-18
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Director: Preston Sturges

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Cast

  • Joel McCrea

    William Thomas Green Morton

  • Betty Field

    Elizabeth Morton

  • Harry Carey

    Professor John C. Warren

  • William Demarest

    Eben Frost

  • Louis Jean Heydt

    Dr. Horace Wells

  • Julius Tannen

    Dr. Charles T. Jackson

  • Edwin Maxwell

    Vice-President of Medical Society

  • Porter Hall

    President Franklin Pierce

  • Franklin Pangborn

    Dr. Heywood

  • Grady Sutton

    Homer Quimby

  • Donivee Lee

    Betty Morton

  • Harry Hayden

    Judge Shipman

  • Torben Meyer

    Dr. Dahlmeyer

  • Victor Potel

    First Dental Patient

  • Thurston Hall

    Senator Borland

  • J. Farrell MacDonald

    The Priest

  • Roscoe Ates

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

  • Hank Bell

    Onlooker (uncredited)

  • Franklyn Farnum

    Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

  • Byron Foulger

    Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

  • Hank Worden

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

  • Arthur Hoyt

    Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

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