Janet Beecher
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Janet Beecher (October 21, 1884 – August 6, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress. Beecher was a supporting player and lead on the Broadway stage between the 1900s and 1940s. Her Broadway debut came in The Education of Mr. Pipp (1905). Her final Broadway play was The Late George Apley (1944). Between 1915 and 1943, she appeared in about fifty motion pictures. She remains perhaps best-remembered as a character actress during Hollywood's golden age, often seen in roles as "firm but compassionate matriarchs". She was known for her roles as Ginger Rogers' mother in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Tyrone Power's mother in the adventure film The Mark of Zorro (1940), and Henry Fonda's mother in Preston Sturges' screwball comedy The Lady Eve (1941). She retired from film business in 1943, but managed to play a role in the television series Lux Video Theatre in 1952.
Known for
Credits
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
as Senora Isabella Vega
The Lady Eve (1941)
as Janet Pike
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as Mrs. Mottram
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
as Miss Haines
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Rosalie (1937)
as Miss Baker
Gallant Lady (1933)
as Maria Sherwood
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
as Mrs. Foote
The Dark Angel (1935)
as Mrs. Shannon
So Red the Rose (1935)
as Sally Bedford
Land of Liberty (1939)
as (archive footage)
Fine Feathers (1915)
Actor
Bitter Sweet (1940)
as Lady Daventry
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Mrs. Craig
Big City (1937)
as Sophie Sloane
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
as Mrs. Colby
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
as Miss Budge
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)
as Self
The Longest Night (1936)
as Mrs. Briggs
Slightly Honorable (1939)
as Mrs. Cushing
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Miss Macdade
Between Two Women (1937)
as Miss Pringle
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
as Mrs. Agatha Steward
Say It in French (1938)
as Mrs. Laura Carrington
Laugh It Off (1939)
as Mary Carter
The Last Gentleman (1934)
as Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
West Point Widow (1941)
as Mrs. Graves
Silver Queen (1942)
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Career (1939)
as Amy Cruthers
For Beauty's Sake (1941)
as Miss Merton
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
as Mrs. Milford
Let's Live Tonight (1935)
as Mrs. Routledge
Man of Conquest (1939)
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
as Nancy Barnum
A Very Young Lady (1941)
as Miss Steele
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Mrs. Holland
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
as Mrs. Tweedy
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
as Mrs. Sinclair
Village Tale (1935)
as Amy Somerville
The Good Old Soak (1937)
as Matilda Hawley
Men of Texas (1942)
as Mrs. Sam Houston
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)
as Eloise Lowry
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
as Lady Alicia Crosby
The Gay Caballero (1940)
as Kate Brewster
A Letter From Bataan (1942)
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
Hi, Neighbor (1942)
as Hattie Greenfield
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
as Mrs. Olcott
I'd Give My Life (1936)
as Stella Bancroft
I Was a Convict (1939)
as Mrs. Martha Harrison
Give Till It Hurts (1937)
as Cathy Gaffney