The Great Moment (1944)

ALL 07/18/1944 (en) Comedy, Drama 83 Min
  • Release
    07/18/1944
  • Production
    Paramount Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    The Great Moment
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

Overview

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.

  1. Preston Sturges

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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  1. Joel McCrea

    William Thomas Green Morton

  2. Betty Field

    Elizabeth Morton

  3. Harry Carey

    Professor John C. Warren

  4. William Demarest

    Eben Frost

  5. Louis Jean Heydt

    Dr. Horace Wells

  6. Julius Tannen

    Dr. Charles T. Jackson

  7. Edwin Maxwell

    Vice-President of Medical Society

  8. Porter Hall

    President Franklin Pierce

  9. Franklin Pangborn

    Dr. Heywood

  10. Grady Sutton

    Homer Quimby

  11. Donivee Lee

    Betty Morton

  12. Harry Hayden

    Judge Shipman

  13. Torben Meyer

    Dr. Dahlmeyer

  14. Victor Potel

    First Dental Patient

  15. Thurston Hall

    Senator Borland

  16. J. Farrell MacDonald

    The Priest

  17. Roscoe Ates

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

  18. Hank Bell

    Onlooker (uncredited)

  19. Franklyn Farnum

    Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

  20. Byron Foulger

    Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

  21. Hank Worden

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

  22. Arthur Hoyt

    Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 22 , Crews : 12

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The Great Moment (1944) 83 Min

ALL 07/18/1944 (en)
Comedy, Drama
  • Release 07/18/1944
  • Production
    Paramount Pictures
  • Original title The Great Moment
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Preston Sturges

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Stuart Gilmore

    Editor

  4. Producer