Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content:  The saga of The Great Moment &ndash; which during various stages of its development was called "Immortal Secret," "Great Without Glory," "Morton the Magnificent" and "Triumph Over Pain" &ndash; begins in 1939, with a screenplay for Paramount Pictures about the life of W.T.G. Morton, written by Preston Sturges, Irwin Shaw, Les River, Charles Brackett and Waldo Twitchell. The film was to be directed by Henry Hathaway, produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. and William LeBaron, with Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan to star as Morton and Eben Frost. When Cooper left Paramount, production was delayed, although there may have been other reasons as well. It's unlikely that any footage was actually shot 
Title: The Great Moment (1921 film)
Content:  The Great Moment is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Milton Sills. The film is now considered lost though a fragment exists and is preserved at the BFI National Archive.
Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content:  to play the lead. The film went into production on 8 April 1942 and wrapped on 5 June, on budget and a day under schedule. (In the sequence of Sturges' films, that's after the filming of The Palm Beach Story but before its release, and before both The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero began shooting.) Joel McCrea, who had just starred in The Palm Beach Story played Morton &ndash; McCrea told Sturges that he only gained good roles when Gary Cooper was unavailable &ndash; and William Demarest played Eben Frost, giving a "gem of a performance" in one of his "strongest and most important roles". Sturges explained 
Title: The Great Moment
Content: The Great Moment (1921 film), an American silent drama film ; The Great Moment (1944 film), an American biographical film The Great Moment may refer to: 
Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content:  I said." The Great Moment premiered in Los Angeles on August 24, 1944, more than two years after filming had wrapped, and went into general release on September 6 of that year. The film was not well-received, either by the critics or at the box-office, becoming the only film directed by Sturges for Paramount not to turn a profit. Sturges' reputation never quite recovered from its failure, and his post-Paramount career is the record of a sad decline. The Great Moment was released on video in the U.S. on November 11, 1990 and re-released on June 30, 1993. It was released on Laserdisc on October 26, 1994.
Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content:  The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges. Based on the book Triumph Over Pain (1940) by René Fülöp-Miller, it tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a 19th-century Boston dentist who discovered the use of ether for general anesthesia. The film stars Joel McCrea and Betty Field, and features Harry Carey, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn and Porter Hall. The movie was filmed in 1942 but not released for over two years, and the released version differed from what Preston Sturges had wished, although he publicly accepted the film as his own. Paramount Pictures disliked the film Sturges 
Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content: Members of Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors who appear in The Great Moment include: George Anderson, Al Bridge, Georgia Caine, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, Wlliam Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Franklin Pangborn, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen, and Max Wagner. Paramount wanted Sturges to stop using the same actors over and over again, but he felt that "these little players who had contributed so much to my first hits had a moral right to work in my subsequent pictures." ; 
Title: The Great Moment (1944 film)
Content:  the themes of sacrifice, triumph and tragedy with elements of madcap, satire and the fickleness of fate and luck. Sturges' commercial and critical success was such that the studio executives, though sceptical of the Morton movie, were willing to indulge him and let him direct it if at the same time he would keep turning out the kind of films which were proven hits. Paramount bought the rights to an MGM short film Life of William Morton, Discoverer of Anesthesia, which is not credited in the released film as a source. Sturges then revised the 1939 screenplay with Ernst Laemmle, whose work was uncredited. At that time, Walter Huston was being 
Title: The Great Moment (1921 film)
Content: Gloria Swanson as Nada and Nadine Pelham ; Alec B. Francis as Sir Edward Pelham ; Milton Sills as Bayard Delaval ; F.R. Butler as Eustace ; Raymond Brathwayt as Lord Crombie ; Helen Dunbar as Lady Crombie ; Julia Faye as Sadi Bronson ; Clarence Geldert as Bronson ; Ann Grigg as Blenkensop ; Arthur Stuart Hull as Howard Hopper 
Title: The Moment (2013 film)
Content:  The Moment is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Jane Weinstock, written by Gloria Norris and Weinstock, and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Martin Henderson, Alia Shawkat, and Meat Loaf. Leigh plays a war photographer who, suffering from PTSD, becomes unsure whether she is responsible for her ex-boyfriend's disappearance.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Great Moment?
Answer: Preston Sturges.
Edmund Preston Biden.