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The Great Moment

Release Year
1944
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy
Drama
Directed By
Preston Sturges
The Great Moment

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 & Crew

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

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

Victor Potel

First Dental Patient

Crew

Preston Sturges

Director

Preston Sturges

Screenplay

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Stuart Gilmore

Editor

René Fülöp-Miller

Writer

Ernst Fegté

Art Direction

Stephen Seymour

Set Decoration

Buddy G. DeSylva

Executive Producer

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