Janet Beecher
Born: 1884-10-20 in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Died: 1955-08-06
Known For: 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.
Filmography
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
- A Tragedy at Midnight as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mrs. Olcott
- A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
- Silver Queen as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
- Men of Texas as Mrs. Sam Houston
- Hi, Neighbor as Hattie Greenfield
1941
- The Lady Eve as Janet Pike
- A Very Young Lady as Miss Steele
- The Parson of Panamint as Mrs. Tweedy
- For Beauty's Sake as Miss Merton
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Mrs. Milford
- West Point Widow as Mrs. Graves
1940
- The Mark of Zorro as Senora Isabella Vega
- All This, and Heaven Too as Miss Haines
- Bitter Sweet as Lady Daventry
- The Gay Caballero as Kate Brewster
1939
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Mrs. Foote
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- Man of Conquest as Mrs. Sarah Lea
- Slightly Honorable as Mrs. Cushing
- Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 as Self
- Laugh It Off as Mary Carter
- I Was a Convict as Mrs. Martha Harrison
- Career as Amy Cruthers
1938
- Judge Hardy's Children as Miss Budge
- Say It in French as Mrs. Laura Carrington
- Yellow Jack as Miss Macdade
- Woman Against Woman as Mrs. Holland
1937
- Rosalie as Miss Baker
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as Mrs. Agatha Steward
- The Good Old Soak as Matilda Hawley
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as Mrs. Sinclair
- Big City as Sophie Sloane
- Between Two Women as Miss Pringle
- The Thirteenth Chair as Lady Alicia Crosby
- Give Till It Hurts as Cathy Gaffney
1936
- I'd Give My Life as Stella Bancroft
- Love Before Breakfast as Mrs. Colby
- The Longest Night as Mrs. Briggs
1935
- So Red the Rose as Sally Bedford
- The Dark Angel as Mrs. Shannon
- Village Tale as Amy Somerville
- Let's Live Tonight as Mrs. Routledge
1934
- The President Vanishes as Mrs. Craig
- The Last Gentleman as Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
- The Mighty Barnum as Nancy Barnum
1933
- Gallant Lady as Maria Sherwood