Janet Beecher
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1884-10-20
Day of Death
1955-08-06 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Janet Beecher
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.
Acting
(1997)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1943)
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
as Eloise Lowry
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram
(1942)
Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
(1942)
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
(1942)
Men of Texas
as Mrs. Sam Houston
(1942)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
(1942)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Olcott
(1942)
Hi, Neighbor
as Hattie Greenfield
(1941)
The Lady Eve
as Janet Pike
(1941)
A Very Young Lady
as Miss Steele
(1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Mrs. Milford
(1941)
West Point Widow
as Mrs. Graves
(1941)
For Beauty's Sake
as Miss Merton
(1941)
The Parson of Panamint
as Mrs. Tweedy
(1940)
The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines
(1940)
Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry
(1940)
The Gay Caballero
as Kate Brewster
(1939)
Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing
(1939)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote
(1939)
Career
as Amy Cruthers
(1939)
Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
(1939)
I Was a Convict
as Mrs. Martha Harrison
(1939)
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
(1939)
Laugh It Off
as Mary Carter
(1939)
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Miss Macdade
(1938)
Woman Against Woman
as Mrs. Holland
(1938)
Say It in French
as Mrs. Laura Carrington
(1938)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Budge
(1937)
Rosalie
as Miss Baker
(1937)
Big City
as Sophie Sloane
(1937)
Between Two Women
as Miss Pringle
(1937)
The Good Old Soak
as Matilda Hawley
(1937)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Mrs. Agatha Steward
(1937)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alissia Crosby
(1937)
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Sinclair
(1937)
Give Till It Hurts
as Cathy Gaffney
(1936)
Love Before Breakfast
as Mrs. Colby
(1936)
I'd Give My Life
as Stella Bancroft
(1936)
The Longest Night
as Mrs. Briggs
(1935)
Village Tale
as Amy Somerville
(1935)
So Red the Rose
as Sally Bedford
(1935)
The Dark Angel
as Mrs. Shannon
(1935)
Let's Live Tonight
as Mrs. Routledge
(1934)
The President Vanishes
as Mrs. Craig
(1934)
The Mighty Barnum
as Nancy Barnum
(1934)
The Last Gentleman
as Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
(1933)
Gallant Lady
as Maria Sherwood