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Movie
The Great Moment
Released: July 18, 1944 (1944)
Runtime: 83 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Harry Carey as Professor John C. Warren
Age at release: 66
- Julius Tannen as Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Age at release: 62
- Edwin Maxwell as Vice-President of Medical Society
Age at release: 58
- Porter Hall as President Franklin Pierce
Age at release: 55
- Franklin Pangborn as Dr. Heywood
Age at release: 55
- William Demarest as Eben Frost
Age at release: 52
- Louis Jean Heydt as Dr. Horace Wells
Age at release: 41
- Joel McCrea as William Thomas Green Morton
Age at release: 38
- Grady Sutton as Homer Quimby
Age at release: 38
- Betty Field as Elizabeth Morton
Age at release: 31
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- Arthur Hoyt as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Age at release: 70
- J. Farrell MacDonald as The Priest
Age at release: 69
- Franklyn Farnum as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Age at release: 66
- Thurston Hall as Senator Borland
Age at release: 62
- Harry Hayden as Judge Shipman
Age at release: 61
- Torben Meyer as Dr. Dahlmeyer
Age at release: 59
- Victor Potel as First Dental Patient
Age at release: 54
- Hank Bell as Onlooker (uncredited)
Age at release: 52
- Roscoe Ates as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Age at release: 49
- Byron Foulger as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Age at release: 45
- Hank Worden as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Age at release: 42
- Donivee Lee as Betty Morton
Age at release: Unknown