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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

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Joel McCrea

as William Thomas Green Morton

13785

Betty Field

as Elizabeth Morton

30212

Harry Carey

as Professor John C. Warren

21510

William Demarest

as Eben Frost

13979

Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

1046805

Julius Tannen

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

13361

Edwin Maxwell

as Vice-President of Medical Society

14975

Porter Hall

as President Franklin Pierce

13966

Franklin Pangborn

as Dr. Heywood

13968

Grady Sutton

as Homer Quimby

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Donivee Lee

as Betty Morton

103068

Harry Hayden

as Judge Shipman

12153

Torben Meyer

as Dr. Dahlmeyer

99468

Victor Potel

as First Dental Patient

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Thurston Hall

as Senator Borland

9091

J. Farrell MacDonald

as The Priest

1509

Roscoe Ates

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

1095107

Hank Bell

as Onlooker (uncredited)

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Franklyn Farnum

as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

96722

Byron Foulger

as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

30299

Hank Worden

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)

29263

Arthur Hoyt

as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

Crew

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Preston Sturges

Director

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Preston Sturges

Screenplay

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René Fülöp-Miller

Writer

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Buddy G. DeSylva

Executive Producer

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Victor Young

Original Music Composer

30259

Stuart Gilmore

Editor

8622

Hans Dreier

Art Direction

127200

Ernst Fegté

Art Direction

1025729

Stephen Seymour

Set Decoration

4350

Edith Head

Costume Design

7689

Wally Westmore

Makeup Artist

30258

Victor Milner

Director of Photography