Acting
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.
Movies with Janet Beecher
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
The Mark of Zorro
1940
Rosalie
1937
The Lady Eve
1941
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
The Dark Angel
1935
Gallant Lady
1933
Yellow Jack
1938
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
So Red the Rose
1935
Land of Liberty
1939
Bitter Sweet
1940
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Silver Queen
1942
Slightly Honorable
1939
Man of Conquest
1939
A Tragedy at Midnight
1942
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
Big City
1937
Say It in French
1938
Men of Texas
1942
A Letter From Bataan
1942
The President Vanishes
1934
I Was a Convict
1939
Career
1939
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
The Parson of Panamint
1941
Laugh It Off
1939
Between Two Women
1937
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
For Beauty's Sake
1941
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
Let's Live Tonight
1935
The Good Old Soak
1937
Village Tale
1935
Woman Against Woman
1938
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1943
Love Before Breakfast
1936
Give Till It Hurts
1937
The Longest Night
1936
The Mighty Barnum
1934
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
The Gay Caballero
1940
A Very Young Lady
1941
West Point Widow
1941
Hi, Neighbor
1942
The Last Gentleman
1934
I'd Give My Life
1936
Fine Feathers
1915