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.
Genres:
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
Roscoe Ates as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Hank Bell as Onlooker (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Hank Worden as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
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