Janet Beecher
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.
51 acting credits
Acting · 51
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
The Mark of Zorro
1940
The Lady Eve
1941
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Bitter Sweet
1940
Village Tale
1935
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Say It in French
1938
Yellow Jack
1938
Career
1939
Rosalie
1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
Silver Queen
1942
Woman Against Woman
1938
Between Two Women
1937
The President Vanishes
1934
Slightly Honorable
1939
The Dark Angel
1935
Big City
1937
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
The Parson of Panamint
1941
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
So Red the Rose
1935
Gallant Lady
1933
Land of Liberty
1939
The Good Old Soak
1937
I Was a Convict
1939
A Very Young Lady
1941
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
For Beauty's Sake
1941
Love Before Breakfast
1936
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1943
Men of Texas
1942
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
The Last Gentleman
1934
Let's Live Tonight
1935
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
West Point Widow
1941
A Tragedy at Midnight
1942
Laugh It Off
1939
A Letter From Bataan
1942
The Gay Caballero
1940
The Longest Night
1936
Man of Conquest
1939
Hi, Neighbor
1942
I'd Give My Life
1936
The Mighty Barnum
1934
Give Till It Hurts
1937
Fine Feathers
1915