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03
2011

Meet John Doe: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart (1941 Movie)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama 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. It was ranked #49 in AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers. The film is now in the public domain. Infuriated at being told to write one final column after being laid off from her newspaper job, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a letter from a fictional unemployed „John Doe,“ threatening suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society’s ills. When the note causes a sensation and the paper’s competition suspects a fraud and starts to investigate, the newspaper editor rehires Mitchell who comes up with a scheme of hiding the fictional nature of „John Doe“ while exploiting the sensation caused by the fake letter to boost the newspaper’s sales, for which she demands a bonus equal to 8 months’ pay. After reviewing a number of derelicts who have shown up at the paper claiming to have penned the original suicide letter, Mitchell and editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) hire John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a former baseball player and tramp who is in need of money

Part 1A -Chapters 1-4. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Lizzie Driver. Playlist for Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift: www.youtube.com

12 Responses to “Meet John Doe: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart (1941 Movie)”

  1. JUAN NADIE… Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart (1941)

    Una historia de alguien corriente sin serlo, sin reflejo en la sociedad por sencillo que era y poco relevante… Pero, CON TAL ESPIRITUALIDAD Y VALIA PERSONAL QUE DEJA DE LADO A „aquellos con reflejo“… LO UTILIZAN, EXPLOTANDOLO, CON EGOISMO, CRUELDAD, SOBERBIA, SUPERIORIDAD,… COMO PURA MERCADERIA DE USAR Y TIRAR…

    EL DARA UNA LECCION MAGISTRAL DE LO QUE ES LA VERDADERA HUMANIDAD DEL HOMBRE…

  2. merci beaucoup

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  7. They don’t make films like this any more. What the public supports now is complete crap like Gaga and Kanye.

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  9. bello

  10. Mucho bueno

  11. @hsmgal17 then I will have to listen to part 3, i never really understood that one. the other parts were easier to get. when i was reading part 3 i sorta skipped it and went to part 4. thought the movie helped. (the 1994 made for tv version starring Ted Danson)

  12. THANK YOU! i have to read this book for summer reading, and the audiobook makes the old english much easier to understand!

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