Meet John Doe (1940)





A penniless drifter (Gary Cooper) is recruited by an ambitious columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.


Books on Meet John Doe

Charles Wolfe (editor)
Meet John Doe
New Brunswick and London, 1989

Books with substantial mentioning of Meet John Doe

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Homer Dickens
The Films of Gary Cooper
Secaucus, NJ, 1970

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970