The Great Moment
(1944)

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

Released: 1944-07-18

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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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Joel McCrea

as William Thomas Green Morton

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Betty Field

as Elizabeth Morton

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Harry Carey

as Professor John C. Warren

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William Demarest

as Eben Frost

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Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

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Julius Tannen

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

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Edwin Maxwell

as Vice-President of Medical Society

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Porter Hall

as President Franklin Pierce

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Franklin Pangborn

as Dr. Heywood

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Grady Sutton

as Homer Quimby

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Donivee Lee

as Betty Morton

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Harry Hayden

as Judge Shipman

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Torben Meyer

as Dr. Dahlmeyer

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Victor Potel

as First Dental Patient

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Thurston Hall

as Senator Borland

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J. Farrell MacDonald

as The Priest

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Roscoe Ates

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

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Hank Bell

as Onlooker (uncredited)

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Franklyn Farnum

as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

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Byron Foulger

as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

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Edith Head

Costume Design

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Stuart Gilmore

Editor

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Hans Dreier

Art Direction

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Ernst Fegté

Art Direction

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René Fülöp-Miller

Writer

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Stephen Seymour

Set Decoration

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Preston Sturges

Screenplay

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Wally Westmore

Makeup Artist

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Preston Sturges

Director

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Buddy G. DeSylva

Executive Producer

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Victor Young

Original Music Composer

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Victor Milner

Director of Photography

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