Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, 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.[1] It became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story. It was ranked #49 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers. In 1969, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[2] It was the first of two features Capra made for Warner Brothers, after he left Columbia Pictures. His second film for Warners was an adaptation of the Broadway play Arsenic and Old Lace and was filmed in 1941 but not released until 1944 because the producers of the play wouldn't allow the film to be shown until the production closed.
Meet John Doe
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Directed by Frank Capra
Produced by Frank Capra
Screenplay by Robert Riskin
Story by Robert Presnell, Sr.
Based on A Reputation
1922 story in Century Magazine
by Richard Connell
Starring Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography George Barnes
Edited by Daniel Mandell
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
May 3, 1941
Running time
122 minutes
Country United States
Language English
File:Meet John Doe (1941)
Meet John Doe
