The Great Moment

The Great Moment (1944)

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

  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Release Date: 1944-07-18
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 19 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Preston Sturges
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From 19 Ratings
6.2

Summary

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.

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  • Joel McCrea

    as William Thomas Green Morton

  • Betty Field

    as Elizabeth Morton

  • Harry Carey

    as Professor John C. Warren

  • William Demarest

    as Eben Frost

  • 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

  • Franklin Pangborn

    as Dr. Heywood

  • Grady Sutton

    as Homer Quimby

  • Donivee Lee

    as Betty Morton

  • Harry Hayden

    as Judge Shipman

  • Torben Meyer

    as Dr. Dahlmeyer

  • Victor Potel

    as First Dental Patient

  • Thurston Hall

    as Senator Borland

  • J. Farrell MacDonald

    as The Priest

  • Roscoe Ates

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

  • Hank Bell

    as Onlooker (uncredited)

  • Franklyn Farnum

    as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

  • Byron Foulger

    as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

  • Hank Worden

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

  • Arthur Hoyt

    as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Costume & Make-Up Edith Head Costume Design
Editing Stuart Gilmore Editor
Art Hans Dreier Art Direction
Art Ernst Fegté Art Direction
Writing René Fülöp-Miller Writer
Art Stephen Seymour Set Decoration
Writing Preston Sturges Screenplay
Costume & Make-Up Wally Westmore Makeup Artist
Directing Preston Sturges Director
Production Buddy G. DeSylva Executive Producer
Sound Victor Young Original Music Composer
Camera Victor Milner Director of Photography

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