Janet Beecher

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: Acting

Born: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, 1884-10-20

Died: 1955-08-06

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Gallant Lady	Maria Sherwood	60
2	1934	The Last Gentleman	Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter	30
3	1934	The President Vanishes	Mrs. Craig	58
4	1934	The Mighty Barnum	Nancy Barnum	5
5	1935	Let's Live Tonight	Mrs. Routledge	10
6	1935	Village Tale	Amy Somerville	45
7	1935	The Dark Angel	Mrs. Shannon	62
8	1935	So Red the Rose	Sally Bedford	65
9	1936	Love Before Breakfast	Mrs. Colby	58
10	1936	I'd Give My Life	Stella Bancroft	60
11	1936	The Longest Night	Mrs. Briggs	57
12	1937	The Good Old Soak	Matilda Hawley	0
13	1937	The Thirteenth Chair	Lady Alissia Crosby	61
14	1937	Between Two Women	Miss Pringle	55
15	1937	Big City	Sophie Sloane	74
16	1937	My Dear Miss Aldrich	Mrs. Sinclair	61
17	1937	Give Till It Hurts	Cathy Gaffney	57
18	1937	Beg, Borrow or Steal	Mrs. Agatha Steward	45
19	1937	Rosalie	Miss Baker	55
20	1938	Judge Hardy's Children	Miss Budge	65
21	1938	Yellow Jack	Miss Macdade	56
22	1938	Woman Against Woman	Mrs. Holland	65
23	1938	Say It in French	Mrs. Laura Carrington	0
24	1939	I Was a Convict	Mrs. Martha Harrison	50
25	1939	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	Mrs. Foote	69
26	1939	Man of Conquest	Mrs. Sarah Lea	54
27	1939	Land of Liberty	(archive footage)	0
28	1939	Career	Amy Cruthers	0
29	1939	Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1	Self	60
30	1939	Laugh It Off	Mary Carter	20
31	1939	Slightly Honorable	Mrs. Cushing	47
32	1940	All This, and Heaven Too	Miss Haines	71
33	1940	The Gay Caballero	Kate Brewster	52
34	1940	Bitter Sweet	Lady Daventry	58
35	1940	The Mark of Zorro	Senora Isabella Vega	71
36	1941	The Lady Eve	Janet Pike	72
37	1941	The Man Who Lost Himself	Mrs. Milford	40
38	1941	For Beauty's Sake	Miss Merton	0
39	1941	West Point Widow	Mrs. Graves	60
40	1941	A Very Young Lady	Miss Steele	10
41	1941	The Parson of Panamint	Mrs. Tweedy	50
42	1942	A Tragedy at Midnight	Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)	40
43	1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Mrs. Mottram	64
44	1942	Men of Texas	Mrs. Sam Houston	0
45	1942	Hi, Neighbor	Hattie Greenfield	0
46	1942	A Letter From Bataan	Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis	45
47	1942	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Mrs. Olcott	0
48	1942	Silver Queen	Mrs. Laura Forsythe	57
49	1943	Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour	Eloise Lowry	60
50	1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line	Self (archive footage)	70

Janet Beecher

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