The Great Moment
movie
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
Released July 18, 1944
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.
Cast
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
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Homer Quimby
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Donivee Lee
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Betty Morton
Harry Hayden
as
Judge Shipman
Crew
Edith Head
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Costume Design
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Stuart Gilmore
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Editor
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Hans Dreier
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Art Direction
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Ernst Fegté
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Art Direction
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René Fülöp-Miller
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Writer
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Stephen Seymour
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Set Decoration
Preston Sturges
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Screenplay
Wally Westmore
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Makeup Artist
Preston Sturges
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Director
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Buddy G. DeSylva
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Executive Producer
Victor Young
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Original Music Composer
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Victor Milner
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Director of Photography