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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. 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 ...
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.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1941-05-03
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. 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. The...
- (24)
- Gary Cooper
- Frank Capra
- Drama
Meet John Doe (1941) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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 down-on-his-luck homeless man (Gary Cooper) is hired by a major newspaper to be the voice behind a fictional protest letter about society's ills and in the process a nationwide social movement is begun that culminates with the threat of a leap from the roof of City Hall on a cold Christmas Eve night. — statusreport.
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Meet John Doe (1941) is Frank Capra's wonderful, message-laden populist melodramatic tale about the common man. The sentimental, hard-hitting film is often grouped into a populist trilogy of Capra films about American individualism - associated with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), although it is generally ...
