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Language. English. Box office. $1.8 million (initial U.S. release) [1] Meet John Doe. 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.
- $1.8 million (initial U.S. release)
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Frank Capra
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.
- Frank Capra
- 118
- 3 min
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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- Gary Cooper
- Frank Capra
- Drama
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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.
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.
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