Janet Beecher
Acting
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.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Eloise Lowry
Silver Queen
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Olcott
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
Hi, Neighbor
Hattie Greenfield
Men of Texas
Mrs. Sam Houston
Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Mottram
A Tragedy at Midnight
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
The Parson of Panamint
Mrs. Tweedy
A Very Young Lady
Miss Steele
West Point Widow
Mrs. Graves
For Beauty's Sake
Miss Merton
The Man Who Lost Himself
Mrs. Milford
The Lady Eve
Janet Pike
The Mark of Zorro
Senora Isabella Vega
Bitter Sweet
Lady Daventry
The Gay Caballero
Kate Brewster
All This, and Heaven Too
Miss Haines
Slightly Honorable
Mrs. Cushing
Laugh It Off
Mary Carter
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
Career
Amy Cruthers
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
Man of Conquest
Mrs. Sarah Lea
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Mrs. Foote
I Was a Convict
Mrs. Martha Harrison
Say It in French
Mrs. Laura Carrington
Woman Against Woman
Mrs. Holland
Yellow Jack
Miss Macdade
Judge Hardy's Children
Miss Budge
Rosalie
Miss Baker
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Mrs. Agatha Steward
Give Till It Hurts
Cathy Gaffney
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mrs. Sinclair
Big City
Sophie Sloane
Between Two Women
Miss Pringle
The Thirteenth Chair
Lady Alicia Crosby
The Good Old Soak
Matilda Hawley
The Longest Night
Mrs. Briggs
I'd Give My Life
Stella Bancroft
Love Before Breakfast
Mrs. Colby
So Red the Rose
Sally Bedford
The Dark Angel
Mrs. Shannon
Village Tale
Amy Somerville
Let's Live Tonight
Mrs. Routledge
The Mighty Barnum
Nancy Barnum
The President Vanishes
Mrs. Craig
The Last Gentleman
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
Gallant Lady
Maria Sherwood
Fine Feathers