The Great Moment (1944)
De biografie van Dr. W.T. Morgan, een tandarts uit Boston uit de 19e eeuw, en zijn zoektocht naar anesthesie, in de vorm van ether, geaccepteerd door het publiek en de medische en tandheelkundige gevestigde orde.
Regiseur:
Preston Sturges
Schrijver:
Preston Sturges
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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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Hank Worden as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited) |
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Arthur Hoyt as Presidential Secretary (uncredited) |
| Writing | Preston Sturges | Screenplay |
| Writing | René Fülöp-Miller | Writer |
| Directing | Preston Sturges | Director |
| Production | Buddy G. DeSylva | Executive Producer |
| Art | Ernst Fegté | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Wally Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Editing | Stuart Gilmore | Editor |
| Art | Stephen Seymour | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Victor Young | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Camera | Victor Milner | Director of Photography |
