The Great Moment

The Great Moment

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

1944-07-18 83 min ★ 5.9
ComedyDrama

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

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