"Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!" 18 July 1944 Drama, Comedy 83 mins
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
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
Donivee Lee as Betty Morton
Harry Hayden as Judge Shipman
Torben Meyer as Dr. Dahlmeyer
Victor Potel as First Dental Patient
Thurston Hall as Senator Borland
J. Farrell MacDonald as The Priest
Preston Sturges Director
Preston Sturges Screenplay
René Fülöp-Miller Writer
Buddy G. DeSylva Executive Producer
Victor Young Original Music Composer
Stuart Gilmore Editor
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Ernst Fegté Art Direction
Stephen Seymour Set Decoration
Edith Head Costume Design
Wally Westmore Makeup Artist
Victor Milner Director of Photography
United Kingdom 18 July 1944
United States 20 August 1944
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Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one.
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A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
11 November 1944
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26 August 1944
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen.
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A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona.
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Dan Stanton and Condon are foreclosing on a group of ranchers in order to gain a land-monopoly. They have one of the ranchers, whose property supplies the others with water, killed.
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This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him.
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