Meet John Doe 1941

Overview

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 also features Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, and Gene Lockhart in its cast. As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from an unemployed individual known as John Doe, who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. Consequently, the newspaper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate Doe. Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it is worth until the made-up John Doe philosophy starts an entire political movement. The feature has a runtime of two hours and three minutes and was released in the United States on March fourteenth, nineteen forty-one.