Janet Beecher
Acting
Biography
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.
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Movies (51)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line1997Self (archive footage)
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour1943Eloise Lowry
Silver Queen1942Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch1942Mrs. Olcott
A Letter From Bataan1942Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
Hi, Neighbor1942Hattie Greenfield
Men of Texas1942Mrs. Sam Houston
Reap the Wild Wind1942Mrs. Mottram
A Tragedy at Midnight1942Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
The Parson of Panamint1941Mrs. Tweedy
A Very Young Lady1941Miss Steele
West Point Widow1941Mrs. Graves
For Beauty's Sake1941Miss Merton
The Man Who Lost Himself1941Mrs. Milford
The Lady Eve1941Janet Pike
The Mark of Zorro1940Senora Isabella Vega
Bitter Sweet1940Lady Daventry
The Gay Caballero1940Kate Brewster
All This, and Heaven Too1940Miss Haines
Slightly Honorable1939Mrs. Cushing- Laugh It Off1939Mary Carter
- Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 11939Self
Career1939Amy Cruthers
Land of Liberty1939(archive footage)
Man of Conquest1939Mrs. Sarah Lea
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle1939Mrs. Foote- I Was a Convict1939Mrs. Martha Harrison
Say It in French1938Mrs. Laura Carrington
Woman Against Woman1938Mrs. Holland
Yellow Jack1938Miss Macdade