Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe
	Theatrical release poster
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	Frank Capra Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 3, 1941;
Running time	122 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.8 million (initial U.S. release)

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. 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).

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^ 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.