
Janet Beecher
Biography
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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.
Acting (46 movies)

The Lady Eve
1941

Rosalie
1937

Reap the Wild Wind
1942

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939

Big City
1937

A Tragedy at Midnight
1942

The Mighty Barnum
1934

Slightly Honorable
1939

Village Tale
1935

Love Before Breakfast
1936

Give Till It Hurts
1937

Gallant Lady
1933

My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937

The Last Gentleman
1934

The Thirteenth Chair
1937

The Longest Night
1936

Between Two Women
1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937

So Red the Rose
1935

Judge Hardy's Children
1938

Bitter Sweet
1940

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942

The Dark Angel
1935

Say It in French
1938

Land of Liberty
1939

Career
1939

The Mark of Zorro
1940

Woman Against Woman
1938

The President Vanishes
1934

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1943

A Letter From Bataan
1942

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997

The Gay Caballero
1940

All This, and Heaven Too
1940

The Good Old Soak
1937

Hi, Neighbor
1942

The Parson of Panamint
1941

Man of Conquest
1939

Men of Texas
1942

Silver Queen
1942

The Man Who Lost Himself
1941

Yellow Jack
1938

West Point Widow
1941

Let's Live Tonight
1935

A Very Young Lady
1941

For Beauty's Sake
1941
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