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Meet John Doe
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7.3As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Long John Willoughby
- Barbara Stanwyck as Ann Mitchell
- Edward Arnold as D.B. Norton
- Walter Brennan as The Colonel
- Spring Byington as Mme Mitchell
- James Gleason as Henry Connell
Themes
- baseball player
- radio broadcast
- suicide note
- domain
- enchant
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Frank Capra
- Screenplay by
- Robert Riskin
- Story by
- Robert Presnell Sr.
- Based on
- " A Reputation ", 1922 story in Century Magazine , by Richard Connell
- Produced by
- Frank Capra
- Starring
- Gary Cooper Barbara Stanwyck Edward Arnold Walter Brennan Spring Byington James Gleason Gene Lockhart
- Cinematography
- George Barnes
- Edited by
- Daniel Mandell
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Production company
- Frank Capra Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- May 3, 1941 ( 1941-05-03 )
- Running time
- 122 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Box office
- $1.8 million (initial U.S. release)
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Encyclopedic overview
Meet John Doe (1941) Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, and Gene Lockhart. The film is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper's wealthy owner.
The film became a box-office success and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story; it was ranked No. 49 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers. It was the first of two features Capra made for Warner Bros. Pictures after he left Columbia Pictures, the other being Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
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