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The Great Moment

(1944)

July 18, 1944• 1h 23m
56%
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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.

Preston Sturges

Director

Top Billed Cast

JM

Joel McCrea

William Thomas Green Morton

BF

Betty Field

Elizabeth Morton

HC

Harry Carey

Professor John C. Warren

WD

William Demarest

Eben Frost

LJH

Louis Jean Heydt

Dr. Horace Wells

JT

Julius Tannen

Dr. Charles T. Jackson

EM

Edwin Maxwell

Vice-President of Medical Society

PH

Porter Hall

President Franklin Pierce

FP

Franklin Pangborn

Dr. Heywood

GS

Grady Sutton

Homer Quimby