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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 and Edward Arnold.
Meet John Doe: Directed by Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan. A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1941-05-03
Dec 13, 2022 · "Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. 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.
Find out who starred in and worked on the classic Frank Capra comedy-drama film Meet John Doe, based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr. See the full list of actors, writers, directors, and more on IMDb.
Meet John Doe -- (Original Trailer) A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business in Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper.
- Frank Capra, Arthur S. Black
- Gary Cooper
A reporter writes a fictitious column about a man named "John Doe," who claims to despair at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself.
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- Drama
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A fake letter from a fictional "John Doe" who threatens suicide sparks a social movement and a media frenzy. A reporter hires a homeless man (Gary Cooper) to play the role of John Doe and falls in love with him.
