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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.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)
Silver Queen (1942)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
A Letter From Bataan (1942)
Hi, Neighbor (1942)
Men of Texas (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
A Very Young Lady (1941)
West Point Widow (1941)
For Beauty's Sake (1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Bitter Sweet (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Gay Caballero (1940)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Slightly Honorable (1939)
Laugh It Off (1939)
Career (1939)
Land of Liberty (1939)
Man of Conquest (1939)
I Was a Convict (1939)
Say It in French (1938)
Woman Against Woman (1938)
Yellow Jack (1938)
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Rosalie (1937)
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
Give Till It Hurts (1937)
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Big City (1937)
Between Two Women (1937)
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
The Good Old Soak (1937)
The Longest Night (1936)
I'd Give My Life (1936)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
So Red the Rose (1935)
The Dark Angel (1935)
Village Tale (1935)
Let's Live Tonight (1935)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
The President Vanishes (1934)
The Last Gentleman (1934)
Gallant Lady (1933)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1884-10-20
Deathday1955-08-06 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceJefferson City, Missouri, USA
SiblingsOlive Wyndham
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJanet Meysenberg
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