Blickenstaff as Ann Mitchell and James Moye as John Willoughby/John Doe. Donna Lynne Champlin had previously appeared as Ann Mitchell in workshop versions of the show. After an off-Broadway stint, the Chicago production of the musical was presented at the Porchlight Music Theatre from March 5 to April 17, 2011, under the direction of Jim Beaudry, musical direction by Eugene Dizon, featuring Elizabeth Lanza as Ann Mitchell and Karl Hamilton as John Willoughby/John Doe, garnering a Jeff Award nomination for Actress in a Principal Role – Musical for Elizabeth Lanza. Due to this production, R&H Theatricals has licensed the show for future productions. A Bollywood remake, Main Azaad Hoon, was released in 1989, starring Amitabh Bachchan. Restoration and home media In 1945 Capra and Riskin sold all rights in Meet John Doe to Sherman S. Krellberg's Goodwill Pictures, a New York distributor. While in Goodwill's possession, the original camera negative deteriorated due to poor storage and was eventually destroyed. Copyright in the film was not renewed and it fell into the public domain in 1969. The Library of Congress created a fresh preservation negative in the 1970s by combining Goodwill's surviving 35mm prints with the Warner Bros. studio print. Poor quality copies of Meet John Doe have proliferated on home video for years, sourced from inferior quality prints, while the restored LoC print remains in storage. In 2001 Ken Barnes' Laureate Presentations undertook a digital restoration of the best available European print. This was released on DVD by Sanctuary in the UK and by VCI in the US. To date these are the best quality commercially available releases. See also List of Christmas films References Notes Bibliography Capra, Frank. Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. . McBride, Joseph. Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. New York: Touchstone Books, 1992. . Scherle, Victor and William Levy. The Films of Frank Capra. Secaucus, New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1977. . External links Meet John Doe, complete film on YouTube Six Screen Plays by Robert Riskin (1997), edited and introduced by Pat McGilligan - UC Press E-Books Collection Screenplay at Dailyscript.com Cinema Then, Cinema Now: Meet John Doe a 1986 discussion of the film hosted by Jerry Carlson of CUNY TV 1941 films 1940s Christmas comedy-drama films 1940s romantic comedy-drama films American black-and-white films American Christmas comedy-drama films American romantic comedy-drama films 1940s English-language