Janet Beecher
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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
Movie
The Lady Eve
as Janet Pike
1941
Movie
The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega
1940
Movie
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram
1942
Movie
All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines
1940
Movie
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote
1939
Movie
The Dark Angel
as Mrs. Shannon
1935
Movie
Love Before Breakfast
as Mrs. Colby
1936
Movie
Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing
1939
Movie
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alicia Crosby
1937
Movie
Yellow Jack
as Miss Macdade
1938
Movie
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Budge
1938
Movie
Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry
1940
Movie
Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
1942
Movie
Rosalie
as Miss Baker
1937
Movie
Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
1939
Movie
Big City
as Sophie Sloane
1937
Movie
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Sinclair
1937
Movie
The Gay Caballero
as Kate Brewster
1940
Movie
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
1942
Movie
Between Two Women
as Miss Pringle
1937
Movie
The President Vanishes
as Mrs. Craig
1934
Movie
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
1942
Movie
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Mrs. Milford
1941
Movie
Give Till It Hurts
as Cathy Gaffney
1937