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The Great Moment

1944·83 min

The Great Moment

Directed by Preston Sturges

ComedyDrama

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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William Thomas Green Morton

Elizabeth Morton

Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

Eben Frost

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Preston Sturges

Screenplay

René Fülöp-Miller

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Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

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Louis Jean Heydt

Dr. Horace Wells

Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Vice-President of Medical Society

President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pangborn

Dr. Heywood

Homer Quimby

Betty Morton

Judge Shipman

Dr. Dahlmeyer

First Dental Patient

Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald

The Priest

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

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Franklyn Farnum

Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

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What is The Great Moment about?

The Great Moment (1944) is about 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.

Who directed The Great Moment?

Preston Sturges directed The Great Moment (1944).

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