"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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