Janet Beecher
Acting
Born 1884-10-20
Died 1955-08-06
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
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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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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Reap the Wild Wind
The Lady Eve
All This, and Heaven Too
The Mark of Zorro
Gallant Lady
The Dark Angel
Rosalie
Land of Liberty
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Judge Hardy's Children
Laugh It Off
So Red the Rose
Man of Conquest
Big City
Bitter Sweet
Love Before Breakfast
West Point Widow
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
The Man Who Lost Himself
Between Two Women
Silver Queen
Say It in French
Yellow Jack
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Let's Live Tonight
A Tragedy at Midnight
Men of Texas
The Gay Caballero
The Mighty Barnum
The Last Gentleman
Slightly Honorable
The President Vanishes
Village Tale
The Parson of Panamint
Woman Against Woman
For Beauty's Sake
I Was a Convict
Career
A Very Young Lady
I'd Give My Life
The Good Old Soak
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
A Letter From Bataan
The Thirteenth Chair
Hi, Neighbor
Give Till It Hurts
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
The Longest Night
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