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The Great Moment
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Duration:
83 min
Genres:
Biography | Comedy | Drama
IMDB rate:
6.3
Director:
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Country: USA
Release Date: 1944-09-06
Filming Locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
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
Professor Charles T. Jackson (as Julian Tannen)
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 (as Vic Potel)
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest
George Anderson
Frederick T. Johnson (uncredited)
Sig Arno
Whackpot (uncredited)
Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
Jackson's Butler (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Mr. Stone (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
Mrs. Whitman (uncredited)
Horace B. Carpenter
Courtroom Dissenter (uncredited)
Janet Chapman
Morton's Daughter (uncredited)
Kenneth Chryst
Unknown Reporter (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Frightened Patient (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Janitor (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Mr. Burnett, Pharmacist (uncredited)
Laurie Douglas
Artist (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Charles - Morton's Cashier (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Sylvia Field
Young Mother (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Robert Frandsen
Mr. Abbott, Surgical Patient (uncredited)
Jack George
Band Leader (uncredited)
Robert Greig
Roberts, Morton's Butler (uncredited)
Alfred Hall
Mr. Smith (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Anesthesia Demonstration Spectator (uncredited)
Esther Howard
Dr. Wells' Patient (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Arthur Stuart Hull
Mr. Whitman (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett
Patient with Swollen Jaw (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Anesthesia Demonstration Spectator (uncredited)
Donnie Kerr
Little Boy (uncredited)
Joe King
Senator from Georgia (uncredited)
Lou Marcelle
Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Dr. Warren's Assistant Surgeon (uncredited)
George Melford
Dr. Hayden (uncredited)
Esther Michelson
Dental Patient (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Tricia Moore
Morton's Daughter when older (uncredited)
Frank Moran
John, Hospital Porter (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Policeman (uncredited)
Ed O'Neill
Secretary (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Mr. Gruber (uncredited)
Keith Richards
Newspaper Artist (uncredited)
Dewey Robinson
Colonel Lawson (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore
New York Herald Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
Mr. Chamberlain (uncredited)
Billy Sheffield
Morton's Son (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield
Horace Greeley (uncredited)
Sheila Sheldon
Surgical Patient (Leg Operation) (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Mr. Gruber's Clerk (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Man at Bar (uncredited)
Harry Tyler
Reporter (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Bartender at Costello's (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
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Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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Originally a much more serious film. After picking up some confused reviews Paramount insisted that it be recut.
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Sturges intended this to be a much more serious film. Panicked by some inconclusive reviews, Paramount cut it as a traditional Sturges comedy. The director, no longer associated with the studio, asked former friend and studio chief Frank Freeman to entitle the film "Triumph Over Pain," and he wrote and offered to write, direct, and appear in a prologue gratis. Paramount did not want to expend the additional $50,000 this would incur, and they ignored his offer.
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Quotes
Prof. Warren: Gentlemen! This is no humbug!
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Eben Frost: It was the night of September 30th. I was in excruciating pain.
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Elizabeth Morton: He's going to be a dentist!
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