
All of America is eager to meet the modern “Mr. Deeds.” After being fired, reporter Ann Mitchell fabricates a desperate letter from an unemployed “John Doe” who threatens suicide to protest social injustices. The paper rehired Ann and hired John Willoughby to pose as Doe. Ann and her editors milk the hoax for profit, yet the invented “John Doe” philosophy sparks a political movement.
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Sterling Holloway
Dan

Walter Brennan
The Colonel

Irving Bacon
Beany

Gary Cooper
Long John Willoughby

Spring Byington
Mme Mitchell

James Gleason
Henry Connell

Barbara Stanwyck
Ann Mitchell

Harry Davenport
Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)

Charles Trowbridge
(uncredited)

Vaughan Glaser
Governor

Gene Lockhart
Mayor Lovett

Regis Toomey
Bert Hansen

Ann Doran
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Russell Simpson
(uncredited)

Edward Arnold
D.B. Norton

Charles C. Wilson
Charlie Dawson

Eddie Kane
Wall Street Tycoon (uncredited)

J. Farrell MacDonald
'Sourpuss'

Hank Mann
Eddie (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
(uncredited)

Paul Panzer
(uncredited)

Pat Flaherty
Mike (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson
Radio Announcer at Convention (uncredited)

Jack Mower
Guard (uncredited)

Warren Hymer
Angelface

Edward Earle
Radio Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

Harry Holman
Mayor Hawkins

Benny Bartlett
Red (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse
Man at Stadium Rally (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Mattie (uncredited)

Forbes Murray
Legislator (uncredited)

Pierre Watkin
Hammett

William Forrest
Governor's Associate (uncredited)

Mitchell Lewis
Bennett

Stanley Andrews
Weston

Bert Stevens
Radio Station Audience Member (uncredited)

Bob Perry
Delegate (uncredited)

James Millican
Photographer (uncredited)

Rod La Rocque
Ted Sheldon

Andrew Tombes
Spencer

M.J. Frankovich
Radio Announcer

Knox Manning
Radio Announcer

John B. Hughes
Radio Announcer

Frank Moran
(uncredited)

Jack Wise
Delegate (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore
Chamber of Commerce Member (uncredited)

John Hamilton
Jim (uncredited)

Tina Thayer
Ann's Sister (uncredited)

Richard Kipling
Police Commissioner (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb
Cop Guarding Ann (uncredited)

George Pembroke
(uncredited)

Jim Thorpe
Extra (uncredited)
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