Janet Beecher
ActingAlso 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.
Movies
(51 total)
The Lady Eve
as Janet Pike
The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram
All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote
The Dark Angel
as Mrs. Shannon
Love Before Breakfast
as Mrs. Colby
Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alicia Crosby
Yellow Jack
as Miss Macdade
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Budge
Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Rosalie
as Miss Baker
Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry
Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
Big City
as Sophie Sloane
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Sinclair
The Gay Caballero
as Kate Brewster
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
Between Two Women
as Miss Pringle