Janet Beecher
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega 1940
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram 1942
All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines 1940
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote 1939
The Dark Angel
as Mrs. Shannon 1935
Love Before Breakfast
as Mrs. Colby 1936
Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing 1939
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alicia Crosby 1937
Yellow Jack
as Miss Macdade 1938
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Budge 1938
Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe 1942
Rosalie
as Miss Baker 1937
Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry 1940
Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea 1939
Big City
as Sophie Sloane 1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Sinclair 1937