The Great Moment
The Great Moment
Release: 1944-07-18
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 5.6
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Grady Sutton
as Homer Quimby
Roscoe Ates
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Hank Worden
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Harry Carey
as Professor John C. Warren
Louis Jean Heydt
as Dr. Horace Wells
Hank Bell
as Onlooker (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Julius Tannen
as Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Edwin Maxwell
as Vice-President of Medical Society
Porter Hall
as President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pangborn
as Dr. Heywood
Victor Potel
as First Dental Patient
Thurston Hall
as Senator Borland
Arthur Hoyt
as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Betty Field
as Elizabeth Morton
Harry Hayden
as Judge Shipman
Torben Meyer
as Dr. Dahlmeyer
J. Farrell MacDonald
as The Priest
Joel McCrea
as William Thomas Green Morton
William Demarest
as Eben Frost
