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The Great Moment

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

Description: 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.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0

Runtime: 83 minutes

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Joel McCrea

Played William Thomas Green Morton

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Betty Field

Played Elizabeth Morton

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Harry Carey

Played Professor John C. Warren

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William Demarest

Played Eben Frost

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Louis Jean Heydt

Played Dr. Horace Wells

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Julius Tannen

Played Dr. Charles T. Jackson

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Edwin Maxwell

Played Vice-President of Medical Society

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Porter Hall

Played President Franklin Pierce

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Franklin Pangborn

Played Dr. Heywood

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Grady Sutton

Played Homer Quimby

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Donivee Lee

Played Betty Morton

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Harry Hayden

Played Judge Shipman

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Torben Meyer

Played Dr. Dahlmeyer

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Victor Potel

Played First Dental Patient

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Thurston Hall

Played Senator Borland

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J. Farrell MacDonald

Played The Priest

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Roscoe Ates

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

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Hank Bell

Played Onlooker (uncredited)

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Franklyn Farnum

Played Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

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Byron Foulger

Played Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

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Hank Worden

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

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Arthur Hoyt

Played Presidential Secretary (uncredited)

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