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