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    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...
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    John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the United States and the United Kingdom when the true name of...
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    John Nommensen Duchac (born February 25, 1953), known professionally as John Doe, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player...
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  • The X-Files Meet John Doe, a 1941 comedy drama film John Doe, a character on the "Allen's Alley" segments of The Fred Allen Show John Doe: Vigilante,...
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    champion of the common man in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For...
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    usual "Warner Bros. Pictures presents", Meet John Doe begins with "Presenting". Some consider Meet John Doe to be Capra's most controversial movie. The...
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    best in American comedy. Other successful films during this period are Meet John Doe (1940) and You Belong to Me (1941), reteaming her with Cooper and Fonda...
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    Carlotta/Ensemble and u/s for Ursula). In 2006, she starred in the musical Meet John Doe at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., winning a Helen Hayes Award...
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    (1941) - President Watts Flight from Destiny (1941) - Judge (uncredited) Meet John Doe (1941) - Jim (uncredited) Strange Alibi (1941) - Judge in Geary Trial...
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    Capra classic Meet John Doe, he played the cynical, "hard boiled" editor brought in to pump up the newspaper that runs with the "John Doe" story. Gleason...
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    divided 65% for Capra, 35% for Riskin. In 1941, Capra directed Riskin's Meet John Doe. However, Riskin felt that Capra was taking all the credit for their...
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    (1931), Forbidden (1932), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), and Meet John Doe (1941). She also did five films with director William A. Wellman: Night...
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    Walter Brennan (category John Birch Society members)
    Durbin in Nice Girl? (1941) and then Cooper again in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941) and Hawks' Sergeant York (1941), a role that earned Brennan a...
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  • deadly sins, leading the pair to John Doe's apartment. Unexpectedly, Doe returns home and is pursued by Mills. Doe incapacitates Mills by striking him...
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  • Hindi-language vigilante film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious...
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    played “Mrs. Mitchell”, mother to Barbara Stanwyck’s star character, in Meet John Doe. During World War II, Byington worked in radio, and decided to continue...
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    Cheers It's a Wonderful Life...# 1 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...# 5 Meet John Doe...# 49 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town...# 83 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs It...
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    written specifically for him. Catán died while working on his next opera, Meet John Doe. Catán's works also include vocal, chamber, orchestral and choral music...
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    nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 (Best Original Story) for the movie Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra and based on his 1922 short story "A...
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  • Night (1935), The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), The Westerner (1940), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Task Force...
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    Inc. v. Doe No. 3 Reunion Industries, Inc. v. Doe 1 Best Western, International, Inc. v. Doe Brendan L. Smith (January 1, 2010), "Meet John Doe" ABA Journal...
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and...
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    After Santa Fe Trail, Peters had small roles in The Strawberry Blonde, Meet John Doe, Here Comes Happiness (1941), and Scattergood Pulls the Strings (all...
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  • Hero and Sturges's screwball comedies. The classic Frank Capra film Meet John Doe was also cited as a model for Laura Ziskin, who both produced and supplied...
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    Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), and a larger than life star turn as Daniel Webster in The Devil...
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  • the piece premiered with Cincinnati Opera at Cincinnati Music Hall. Meet John Doe by Mexico-born composer Daniel Catán remained unfinished after his death...
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    Youth" (writer) 4x11 "'Twas the Night Before Mxymas" (writer) 4x14 "Meet John Doe" (writer) 4x20 "I've Got You Under My Skin" (writer) The X-Files 5x08...
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    these appearances were supporting roles. In Meet John Doe(1941), she plays the wife of sodajerk-turned-John Doe Club activist Bert Hansen. Though her character...
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    parts in Western movies, but he also appeared in major films including Meet John Doe, The Little Foxes, The Magnificent Ambersons, and the Marx Brothers...
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  • formed to identify unidentified deceased persons (commonly known as John Doe or Jane Doe) using forensic genealogy. Volunteers identify victims of automobile...
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