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.

Cast

Joel McCrea

as William Thomas Green Morton

Betty Field

as Elizabeth Morton

Harry Carey

as Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

as Eben Frost

Louis Jean Heydt

as Dr. Horace Wells

Julius Tannen

as Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Edwin Maxwell

as Vice-President of Medical Society

Porter Hall

as President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pangborn

as Dr. Heywood

Grady Sutton

as Homer Quimby

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