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Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a "grassroots" political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman, became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story (for Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr.). Though the film is less well known than other Capra classics, it remains highly regarded today.

Plot

Infuriated at being laid off from her job as a newspaper columnist, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a fake letter from the unemployed "John Doe," threatening suicide in protest of society's ills. When the note causes a sensation, the newspaper is forced to rehire Mitchell. Together, the paper and Ann hire a John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a former baseball player and tramp to play "John Doe." As the Doe philosophy spreads across the country developing into a political movement, Ann discovers the real motives of her publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold).

Cast

Gary Cooper as John Doe/Long John Willoughby
Barbara Stanwyck as Ann Mitchell
Edward Arnold as D. B. Norton
Walter Brennan as The Colonel
Spring Byington as Mrs. Mitchell
James Gleason as Henry Connell
Gene Lockhart as Mayor Lovett
Rod La Rocque as Ted Sheldon

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