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.
As Actor/Actress
Lady Eve
Janet Pike
Slightly Honorable
Mrs. Cushing
Big City
Sophie Sloane
Yellow Jack
Miss Macdade
Village Tale
Amy Somerville
Rosalie
Miss Baker
La marca del Zorro
Senora Isabella Vega
Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Mottram
Say It in French
Mrs. Laura Carrington
All This, and Heaven Too
Miss Haines
Hi, Neighbor
Hattie Greenfield
So Red the Rose
Sally Bedford
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
The President Vanishes
Mrs. Craig
Woman Against Woman
Mrs. Holland
The Dark Angel
Mrs. Shannon
Men of Texas
Mrs. Sam Houston
The Man Who Lost Himself
Mrs. Milford
A Tragedy at Midnight
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
Bitter Sweet
Lady Daventry
Between Two Women
Miss Pringle
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Mrs. Foote
Silver Queen
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Love Before Breakfast
Mrs. Colby
Gallant Lady
Maria Sherwood
Career
Amy Cruthers
The Mighty Barnum
Nancy Barnum
The Last Gentleman
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
The Longest Night
Mrs. Briggs