The Great Moment

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

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.

Comedy Drama

Joel McCrea

(William Thomas Green Morton)

Betty Field

(Elizabeth Morton)

Harry Carey

(Professor John C. Warren)

William Demarest

(Eben Frost)

Louis Jean Heydt

(Dr. Horace Wells)

Julius Tannen

(Dr. Charles T. Jackson)

Edwin Maxwell

(Vice-President of Medical Society)

Porter Hall

(President Franklin Pierce)

Franklin Pangborn

(Dr. Heywood)

Grady Sutton

(Homer Quimby)

Donivee Lee

(Betty Morton)

Harry Hayden

(Judge Shipman)

Torben Meyer

(Dr. Dahlmeyer)

Victor Potel

(First Dental Patient)

Thurston Hall

(Senator Borland)

J. Farrell MacDonald

(The Priest)

Roscoe Ates

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

Hank Bell

(Onlooker (uncredited))

Franklyn Farnum

(Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited))

Byron Foulger

(Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited))

Hank Worden

(Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited))

Arthur Hoyt

(Presidential Secretary (uncredited))