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The Great Moment

The Great Moment

5.6/10 TMDB1944Comedy83 minutes

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

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.

JO
Joel McCrea
William Thomas Green Morton
HA
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
HA
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
ED
Edwin Maxwell
Vice-President of Medical Society
BE
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
GR
Grady Sutton
Homer Quimby
WI
William Demarest
Eben Frost
PO
Porter Hall
President Franklin Pierce
HA
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
TO
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer
BY
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
VI
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient

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ComedyDrama
83 minutes
English
United States of America
July 18, 1944

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