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Dec 13, 2022 · 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 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 ...
Background. 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 ...
Dec 5, 2004 · Meet John Doe is one of the best films ever! Cabra is brilliant; this one is right up there with my favorite movie, It's A Wonderful Life. All the actors did a fine job. Barbara Stanwyck is amazing here, as she is in all her films.
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Meet John Doe. A reporter, Ann Mitchell writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe" and convinces a homeless man 'Long John' Willoughby to impersonate this fictitious character so she can keep her job. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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Meet John Doe. A reporter, Ann Mitchell writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe" and convinces a homeless man 'Long John' Willoughby to impersonate this fictitious character so she can keep her job. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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Meet John Doe. 1941 · 2 hr 3 min. TV-PG. Romance · Comedy · Drama. Gary Cooper is a down and out former baseball player and Barbara Stanwyck as the newspaperwoman who first exploits him. Starring: Gary Cooper Barbara Stanwyck Edward Arnold. Directed by: Frank Capra.
The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people ...
