Meet John Doe (1941)

 Meet John Doe, released in 1941 by Warner Brothers Pictures; directed by Frank Capra. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart, Regis Toomey, and Irving Bacon. Fired as part of a downsizing move, a reporter ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe".  Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people, the fabricated John Doe announces that he is going to jump off City Hall on Christmas Eve.