The Great Moment

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.

• Preston SturgesScreenplay
• René Fülöp-MillerWriter
• Preston SturgesDirector
• Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer

• Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
• Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
• Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
• William DemarestEben Frost
• Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
• Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
• Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
• Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce
• Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
• Grady SuttonHomer Quimby
• Donivee LeeBetty Morton
• Harry HaydenJudge Shipman