| Meet John Doe | |
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| Directed by | Frank Capra |
| Screenplay by | Robert Riskin |
| Story by | Robert Presnell Sr. |
| Based on | A Reputation 1922 story in Century Magazine by Richard Connell |
| Produced by | Frank Capra |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Barbara Stanwyck Edward Arnold |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.8 million (initial U.S. release)[1] |
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's wealthy owner.[2] It became a box-office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story. It was ranked No. 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.[3] It was the first of two features Capra made for Warner Brothers, after he left Columbia Pictures, the other being Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
- ^ Fragias, Leonidas (2017). Annual US Top Film Rentals 1912 - 1979 (Kindle ed.). Leonidas Fragias.
- ^ Dirks, Tim. "Filmsite Movie Review: Meet John Doe (1941)." Filmsite.org (AMC Networks). Retrieved: March 13, 2015.
- ^ Pierce, David. "Forgotten faces: Why some of our cinema heritage is part of the public domain." Film History, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007, pp. 125–143.