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
Gallant Lady (1933)
as Maria Sherwood
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as Mrs. Mottram
The Dark Angel (1935)
as Mrs. Shannon
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
as Senora Isabella Vega
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
as Miss Haines
Rosalie (1937)
as Miss Baker
So Red the Rose (1935)
as Sally Bedford
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
as Miss Budge
Land of Liberty (1939)
as (archive footage)
The Lady Eve (1941)
as Janet Pike
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
as Mrs. Agatha Steward
Bitter Sweet (1940)
as Lady Daventry
Laugh It Off (1939)
as Mary Carter
Fine Feathers (1915)
Actor
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Slightly Honorable (1939)
as Mrs. Cushing
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
as Nancy Barnum
Silver Queen (1942)
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Big City (1937)
as Sophie Sloane
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
as Mrs. Colby
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
as Mrs. Foote
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
as Mrs. Sinclair
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
as Mrs. Tweedy
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
as Lady Alicia Crosby
Men of Texas (1942)
as Mrs. Sam Houston
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Miss Macdade
Village Tale (1935)
as Amy Somerville
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Mrs. Craig
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
as Mrs. Olcott
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
Between Two Women (1937)
as Miss Pringle
Man of Conquest (1939)
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Mrs. Holland
Give Till It Hurts (1937)
as Cathy Gaffney
A Very Young Lady (1941)
as Miss Steele
Say It in French (1938)
as Mrs. Laura Carrington
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)
as Self
The Longest Night (1936)
as Mrs. Briggs
A Letter From Bataan (1942)
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
For Beauty's Sake (1941)
as Miss Merton
Career (1939)
as Amy Cruthers
The Last Gentleman (1934)
as Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
The Gay Caballero (1940)
as Kate Brewster
West Point Widow (1941)
as Mrs. Graves
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
as Mrs. Milford
I'd Give My Life (1936)
as Stella Bancroft
Let's Live Tonight (1935)
as Mrs. Routledge
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)
as Eloise Lowry
Hi, Neighbor (1942)
as Hattie Greenfield
The Good Old Soak (1937)
as Matilda Hawley
I Was a Convict (1939)
as Mrs. Martha Harrison