

The Great Moment
1 hour 23 minutes1944-07-18
5.8
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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

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)
