Story :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.
Cast
Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
William DemarestEben Frost
Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce
Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
Grady SuttonHomer Quimby
Donivee LeeBetty Morton
Harry HaydenJudge Shipman
Torben MeyerDr. Dahlmeyer
Victor PotelFirst Dental Patient
Thurston HallSenator Borland
J. Farrell MacDonaldThe Priest
Roscoe AtesMorton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Hank BellOnlooker (uncredited)
Franklyn FarnumMassachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)