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Paramount Pictures presents

The Great Moment

directed by Preston Sturges

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

19441h 23mNRComedy

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Paramount Pictures presents

The Great Moment

directed by Preston Sturges

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

19441h 23mNRComedy

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§ Synopsis

Comedy · Drama

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.

§ Keywords

what it's about

boston, massachusetts biography dentist

§ Crew

behind the camera

Director

Preston Sturges

Screenplay

Preston Sturges

Writer

René Fülöp-Miller

Cinematography

Music

§ Cast

8 of 22

Joel McCrea

as William Thomas Green Morton

Betty Field

as Elizabeth Morton

Harry Carey

as Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

William Demarest

Louis Jean Heydt

Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

Julius Tannen

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Edwin Maxwell

as Vice-President of Medical Society

Porter Hall

as President Franklin Pierce

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