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47
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Actor
Janet Beecher
Acting
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Movies: 47Series: 0
TMDB ID: 30261
IMDb ID: nm0066325
Known for: Acting
Born: October 20, 1884
Died: August 6, 1955
Age: 70
Place of birth: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1915 - 1997
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.98
Wikidata: Q6153188
Also known as
Janet Meysenberg
Biography
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.
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Movie credits linked with Janet Beecher.
7.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997 Movie
6.0
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
as Eloise Lowry
1943 Movie
5.7
Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
1942 Movie
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Olcott
1942 Movie
4.5
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
1942 Movie
Hi, Neighbor
as Hattie Greenfield
1942 Movie
Men of Texas
as Mrs. Sam Houston
1942 Movie
6.4
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram
1942 Movie
4.7
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
1942 Movie
5.0
The Parson of Panamint
as Mrs. Tweedy
1941 Movie
1.0
A Very Young Lady
as Miss Steele
1941 Movie
6.0
West Point Widow
as Mrs. Graves
1941 Movie
For Beauty's Sake
as Miss Merton
1941 Movie
4.5
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Mrs. Milford
1941 Movie
7.2
The Lady Eve
as Janet Pike
1941 Movie
7.1
The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega
1940 Movie
5.8
Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry
1940 Movie
5.2
The Gay Caballero
as Kate Brewster
1940 Movie
7.3
All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines
1940 Movie
4.7
Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing
1939 Movie
Career
as Amy Cruthers
1939 Movie
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1939 Movie
5.0
Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
1939 Movie
6.9
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote
1939 Movie