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The Great Moment

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Calorie Rating: 117
Released: 1944-07-18
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Studios: Paramount Pictures,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Joel McCrea
Character: William Thomas Green Morton
Betty Field
Character: Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
Character: Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest
Character: Eben Frost
Louis Jean Heydt
Character: Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
Character: Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Edwin Maxwell
Character: Vice-President of Medical Society
Porter Hall
Character: President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pangborn
Character: Dr. Heywood

Grady Sutton
Character: Homer Quimby
Donivee Lee
Character: Betty Morton
Harry Hayden
Character: Judge Shipman

Torben Meyer
Character: Dr. Dahlmeyer
Victor Potel
Character: First Dental Patient
Thurston Hall
Character: Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald
Character: The Priest
Roscoe Ates
Character: Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Character: Onlooker (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
Character: Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Character: Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Character: Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)

Arthur Hoyt
Character: Presidential Secretary (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Buddy G. DeSylva
Executive Producer
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction

Stephen Seymour
Set Decoration

Ernst Fegté
Art Direction
Edith Head
Costume Design

Wally Westmore
Makeup Artist
Victor Milner
Director of Photography