The Great Moment

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

83 mins
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.

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

Julius Tannen

Dr. Charles T. Jackson

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

Torben Meyer

Dr. Dahlmeyer

Victor Potel

First Dental Patient

Thurston Hall

Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald

The Priest

Roscoe Ates

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

Hank Bell

Onlooker (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

Hank Worden

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

Arthur Hoyt

Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

Edith Head

Costume Design

Stuart Gilmore

Editor

Hans Dreier

Art Direction

Ernst Fegté

Art Direction

René Fülöp-Miller

Writer

Stephen Seymour

Set Decoration

Preston Sturges

Screenplay

Wally Westmore

Makeup Artist

Preston Sturges

Director

Buddy G. DeSylva

Executive Producer

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Victor Milner

Director of Photography

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