#meet john doe

[normasshearer]

BARBARA STANWYCK as Ann Mitchell MEET JOHN DOE (1941) dir. Frank Capra

#filmedit #filmgifs #filmblr #classicfilmedit #classicfilmblr #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmsource #cinemaspast #cinemaspam #dailyflicks #uservita #usersjoy #usersuzanne #barbara stanwyck #meet john doe #frank capra #1941 #1940s #*mygifs #OBSESSED with how barbara slams that door in the 1st gif

[thebarroomortheboy]

"Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they wouldn't be here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid. That's why they came up here. Oh, darling!... We can start clean now. Just you and I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh please, John... You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe. And he's kept that ideal alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping it alive for ever and always - for every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing, John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting, to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to give up. You and I, John, we... Oh, no, no, John. If you die, I want to die too. Oh, oh, I love you."

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) | dir. Frank Capra

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[boydswan]

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) dir. Frank Capra

#meet john doe #gary cooper #frank capra #classicfilmsource #mine #happy heavenly bday to the best idealist there's ever been <3 #happy bdAY FRANCESCO

[bornforastorm]

do u have any fave holiday / ny / wintery / decembery movies 👀

Boy do I!!

I bet you've seen plenty of these, but here are the first ones that immediately leapt to my mind, in chronological order:

REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1939) - thee wintery holiday movie for me. unsung masterpiece, extremely sexy.

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) - holidays but make it miserable and moral. sometimes the holiday season is about being glum! Also I love to see young Gary Cooper's big sad eyes in the snow.

(^^both of those are currently streaming on the criterion channel!!)

NEVER SAY GOODBYE (1946) - I think Errol Flynn should be on any winter/holiday list. He's pure cozy to me, and especially in his comedic mode. This is a Christmas comedy of remarriage! A big marine picks him up under the arms and carries him around!!

BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) - wintery and whimsical! And features gay witch Jack Lemmon so what more could you want (there should also always be one Jack Lemmon movie on every holiday list and while The Apartment is the obvious one, it's never been quite what I want in winter)

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) - a pure Snow movie. ideal to put on while you decorate and then spend ten minutes here and there getting lost in Omar Sharif's eyes.

METROPOLITAN (1990) - Whit Stilman is New York and Metropolitan is his New York Winter Holiday movie. Charming, witty, delightful.

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) - an obvious one but the best. Career best Michael Caine, career best Muppets. I wonder-- too much Gonzo for your taste??

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) - one of my favorite movies of all time, so sad so cold, maybe more of an early February movie than a December movie, but good winter, good new york, good music.

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) - it's giving winter 🤌 it's giving blood on the snow 🤌 it's giving ghosts 🤌 it's giving Gothic 🤌

THE GOLDFINCH (2019) - I am the sicko who really likes the movie of The Goldfinch. But here's the deal...... it's wintery. It's cozy. the vibes are immaculate (to me). Ends on Christmas in Amsterdam and that feels great!!

#ben baby I hope these aren't a disappointment to you #movies #remember the night #meet john doe #never say goodbye #bell book and candle #doctor zhivago #metropolitan #muppet christmas carol #inside llewyn davis #crimson peak #the goldfinch

[chessismyaesthetic]

Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and director Frank Capra on the set of Meet John Doe

#chess #Barbara Stanwyck #gary cooper #frank capra #meet john doe

[letterboxd-loggd]

Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra

November 28th 2023

#meet john doe #1941 #frank capra #gary cooper #barbara stanwyck #walter brennan #james gleason #edward arnold #irving bacon #spring byington #regis toomey #j. farrell macdonald #ann doran #john doe dynamite #frank capra's 'meet john doe' #the life and death of john doe #the life of john doe

[gmzriver]

Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane in "Christmas in Connecticut" (1945) icons

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#barbara stanwyck #barbara stanwyck icons #elizabeth lane #christmas in connecticut #classic cinema #1945 #40s #40s movies #40s fashion #40s actress #double indemnity #the lady eve #ball of fire #baby face #stella dallas #meet john doe #frank capra #titanic #old hollywood #old hollywood icons #classic actress #classic movies #classic film #classic #christmas movies #films #films icons #icons #twitter icons

[drinkin-cherryschnapps]

i did it

#newsies #meet john doe #something rotten

[megaclaudiolis]

醜聞 (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa × Meet John Doe (1941) / It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

#三船敏郎 #toshiro mifune #gary cooper #james stewart #醜聞 #scandal 1950 #meet john doe #it's a wonderful life #黑沢明 #frank capra #made by me #srsly Scandal the movie sCREAMS IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE #the scene where they sang auld lang syne together in the tavern...certified Capra inspired #um and I've read a few weeks ago that Kurosawa loved It's a Wonderful life :')

[fictionadventurer]

Same story.

#meet john doe #mockingjay #frank capra #suzanne collins #saw a bit of it yesterday #and couldn't much engage with the story i saw #because every time i saw john doe speaking all i could think was 'there's the mockingjay'

[onefootin1941]

Barbara Stanwyck in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe, 1941.

#barbara stanwyck #meet john doe #frank capra #1941

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2024:

Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), 1941

#films #movies #stills #Meet John Doe #Frank Capra #Barbara Stanwyck #1940s #Hollywood #seen in 2024

[scholarofgloom]

"I don't read no papers, and I don't listen to radios either. I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber, and I don't have to read it."- Walter Brennan in Meet John Doe (1941)

#Meet John Doe #Walter Brennan #1940s #the world is even worse now

[m--bloop]

Meet John Doe dir. Frank Capra (1941)

#meet john doe #frank capra #screencaps #gary cooper #barbara stanwyck #j

[byneddiedingo]

Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper, Irving Bacon, Barbara Stanwyck, and James Gleason in Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr. Cinematography: George Barnes. Art direction: Stephen Goosson. Film editing: Daniel Mandell. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

Meet John Doe opens with reporters and editors at a newspaper being fired because the owner wants it to be, as the paper's new slogan says, "streamlined ... for a streamlined age." And the plot involves a very wealthy man who uses a phony populist approach to try to get himself elected president. Who says an 82-year-old movie isn't relevant today? But the movie eventually falls apart because Frank Capra can't get his story to make sense. I never watch a Capra film without wanting to throw something at the screen, and that includes the beloved It's a Wonderful Life (1946), which makes me faintly nauseated. Meet John Doe has a few wonderful things going for it, principally the opportunity to see Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper at their starry prime. (Though they were much better in a movie they made together in the same year, Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire.) Experience tells, and by 1941 Stanwyck had been making movies for more than a decade, and Cooper had been in films since the mid-1920s. They had the kind of easy, spontaneous, natural manner on screen that could steady even the most wobbly vehicle. Meet John Doe starts to wobble about halfway through, when it becomes apparent that there is no easy way Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin can handle the director's muddled populist sentiments: Capra always wants to celebrate the "common man" in his movies, but it was clear to anyone on the brink of the entry of the United States into World War II that the common man was a dangerous force to work with. So what we have in the film is an odd mix of sentimentality and cynicism. Stanwyck's character, Ann Mitchell, starts as a cynic, concocting a sob story about a "John Doe" who threatens to commit suicide because he's fed up with a corrupt society. She does it to save her job at the newspaper, and the equally cynical managing editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) decides to run with it. That's when they find a homeless man (Cooper) to pretend to be the real John Doe. When he turns out to be an inspiration to the "common man" of Capra's fantasies, bringing about peace and harmony across the land, the sentimentality takes over, converting Ann and Connell, but also playing into the hands of the paper's owner, D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold) , who tries to use John Doe's followers for political gain. And when John Doe is exposed as a fake, the adoring millions suddenly turn into a raging mob. If Capra weren't so invested in making things turn out all right, he could have created a powerful satire, but he couldn't find an ending to the film that would satisfy both his Hollywood-nurtured sentimentality and the logic of the plot.

#Meet John Doe #Frank Capra #Walter Brennan #Gary Cooper #Irving Bacon #Barbara Stanwyck #James Gleason

[cineheart]

#Meet John Doe #1940s #classic film #classicfilmsource