Movieland Mystery Photo -- [Updated]
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[Update: As everybody realized, this is from “Meet John Doe” … ] |
| As is typical with many of The Times’ old photos, this print was glued to something for publication and then pulled off, which is why it is ripped. Barely visible through the glue is the credit for photographer Mack Elliott. Here’s the same shot, as it appears in Frank Capra’s “The Name Above the Title.” And the detail shot. According to the caption information in Capra’s book, this scene was filmed at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. He captioned this photo “I love rain scenes.” Here’s our mystery camera crew…. … and our mystery gizmos to make it “rain” … … our mystery guys standing around …. … more mystery guys standing around…. … our mystery person with his hands raised…. [Capra also points out the dolly track for the camera crane.] … our mystery crowd…. … and here’s a mystery person up in the stands of our mystery baseball park. |
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Is this Gary Cooper in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN?
Posted by: Mary mallory | January 12, 2011 at 07:36 AM
It looks like it's from "Meet John Doe"
Posted by: Mark Heimback-Nielsen | January 12, 2011 at 09:27 AM
MEET JOHN DOE 1941.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | January 12, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Could the mystery production be "Meet John Doe"? And, the mystery person with hands raised Frank Capra? Or, Moses parting the Red Sea?
Posted by: Rogét-L.A. | January 12, 2011 at 09:49 AM
How about Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe"? Lots of rain in that one.
Posted by: periwinkle | January 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM
From "Meet John Doe" - the scene near the end at the "john Doe" rally
Posted by: Elsie | January 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Meet John Doe
Posted by: Julie Merholz | January 12, 2011 at 10:33 AM
these are scenes filmed at la wrigley field for the movie meet john doe with gary cooper
Posted by: herb nichols | January 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Is it This is the Army, and could that be Reagan?
Posted by: Mary Mallory | January 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM
They're doing a crowd shot for the ball park convention rally for Frank Capra's MEET JOHN DOE (1941). It may be second unit director Arthur S. Blank with his arms raised, or Capra. Either Gary Cooper or his stand-in in the overcoat and hat at the left of the podium.
Posted by: Brent Walker | January 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Could be another Cooper/Capra collaboration, "Meet John Doe."
Posted by: Vincent | January 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Looks like Meet John Doe.
Posted by: Charles Middleton | January 12, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Meet John Doe
Posted by: Rance Ryan | January 12, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Did I get the wrong Gary Cooper, MEET JOHN DOE?
Posted by: Mary Mallory | January 12, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Now the question is, was this taken at (Los Angeles) Wrigley Field or Gilmore Field? Judging from the seating and the railing, I'm guessing the former, though it's possible (albeit a longshot) that Capra did this on the Columbia lot.
I am certain L.A. Wrigley was used for baseball scenes in a later Cooper film, "The Pride Of The Yankees."
Posted by: Vincent | January 12, 2011 at 07:45 PM