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The Great Moment (1944)

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

5.8(22)1h 23mJuly 18, 1944

Preston Sturges

Director

René Fülöp-Miller, Preston Sturges

Writers

Rate

Diary

Overview

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

Joel McCrea

William Thomas Green Morton

Betty Field

Elizabeth Morton

Harry Carey

Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

Eben Frost

LJ

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

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)

Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: July 18, 1944
Production: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States of America

Keywords

boston, massachusettsbiographydentist

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