Meet John Doe

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

• Frank CapraDirector
• Robert RiskinScreenplay
• Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer

• Gary CooperLong John Willoughby
• Barbara StanwyckAnn Mitchell
• Edward ArnoldD.B. Norton
• Walter BrennanThe Colonel
• Spring ByingtonMme Mitchell
• James GleasonHenry Connell
• Gene LockhartMayor Lovett
• Rod La RocqueTed Sheldon
• Irving BaconBeany
• Regis ToomeyBert Hansen
• J. Farrell MacDonald'Sourpuss'
• Warren HymerAngelface