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 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.
Movie | Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour | Eloise Lowry | 1943-04-30 |
Movie | A Tragedy at Midnight | Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited) | 1942-02-02 |
Movie | Reap the Wild Wind | Mrs. Mottram | 1942-03-26 |
Movie | Men of Texas | Mrs. Sam Houston | 1942-07-03 |
Movie | Silver Queen | Mrs. Laura Forsythe | 1942-11-14 |
Movie | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Mrs. Olcott | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Hi, Neighbor | Hattie Greenfield | 1942-07-27 |
Movie | The Lady Eve | Janet Pike | 1941-02-25 |
Movie | The Man Who Lost Himself | Mrs. Milford | 1941-03-21 |
Movie | West Point Widow | Mrs. Graves | 1941-06-20 |
Movie | The Parson of Panamint | Mrs. Tweedy | 1941-07-25 |
Movie | A Very Young Lady | Miss Steele | 1941-06-27 |
Movie | All This, and Heaven Too | Miss Haines | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | The Gay Caballero | Kate Brewster | 1940-10-04 |
Movie | The Mark of Zorro | Senora Isabella Vega | 1940-11-08 |
Movie | Bitter Sweet | Lady Daventry | 1940-11-08 |
Movie | Man of Conquest | Mrs. Sarah Lea | 1939-05-15 |
Movie | The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | Mrs. Foote | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | Career | Amy Cruthers | 1939-07-07 |
Movie | I Was a Convict | Mrs. Martha Harrison | 1939-03-06 |
Movie | Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 | 1939-09-22 | |
Movie | Slightly Honorable | Mrs. Cushing | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | Laugh It Off | Mary Carter | 1939-12-01 |
Movie | Judge Hardy's Children | Miss Budge | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | Yellow Jack | Miss Macdade | 1938-05-19 |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Mrs. Holland | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | Say It in French | Mrs. Laura Carrington | 1938-11-25 |
Movie | The Thirteenth Chair | Lady Alissia Crosby | 1937-05-07 |
Movie | The Good Old Soak | Matilda Hawley | 1937-04-23 |
Movie | Big City | Sophie Sloane | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | Between Two Women | Miss Pringle | 1937-07-09 |
Movie | My Dear Miss Aldrich | Mrs. Sinclair | 1937-09-17 |
Movie | Rosalie | Miss Baker | 1937-12-24 |
Movie | Beg, Borrow or Steal | Mrs. Agatha Steward | 1937-12-03 |
Movie | Give Till It Hurts | Cathy Gaffney | 1937-09-18 |
Movie | I'd Give My Life | Stella Bancroft | 1936-08-13 |
Movie | Love Before Breakfast | Mrs. Colby | 1936-03-09 |
Movie | The Longest Night | Mrs. Briggs | 1936-10-02 |
Movie | The Dark Angel | Mrs. Shannon | 1935-09-08 |
Movie | Village Tale | Amy Somerville | 1935-06-15 |
Movie | So Red the Rose | Sally Bedford | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | The Last Gentleman | Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter | 1934-04-27 |
Movie | The President Vanishes | Mrs. Craig | 1934-11-17 |
Movie | The Mighty Barnum | Nancy Barnum | 1934-12-23 |
Movie | Gallant Lady | Maria Sherwood | 1933-12-07 |