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Janet Beecher
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
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…
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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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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1943
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Movie Eloise Lowry
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1942
Silver Queen
Movie Mrs. Laura Forsythe
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1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Movie Mrs. Olcott
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1942
A Letter From Bataan
Movie Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
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1942
Hi, Neighbor
Movie Hattie Greenfield
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1942
Men of Texas
Movie Mrs. Sam Houston
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1942
Reap the Wild Wind
Movie Mrs. Mottram
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1942
A Tragedy at Midnight
Movie Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
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1941
The Parson of Panamint
Movie Mrs. Tweedy
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1941
A Very Young Lady
Movie Miss Steele
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1941
West Point Widow
Movie Mrs. Graves
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1941
For Beauty's Sake
Movie Miss Merton
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1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
Movie Mrs. Milford
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1941
The Lady Eve
Movie Janet Pike
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1940
The Mark of Zorro
Movie Senora Isabella Vega
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1940
Bitter Sweet
Movie Lady Daventry
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1940
The Gay Caballero
Movie Kate Brewster
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1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie Miss Haines
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1939
Slightly Honorable
Movie Mrs. Cushing
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1939
Laugh It Off
Movie Mary Carter
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1939
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Movie Self
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1939
Career
Movie Amy Cruthers
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1939
Land of Liberty
Movie (archive footage)
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1939
Man of Conquest
Movie Mrs. Sarah Lea
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1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Movie Mrs. Foote
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1939
I Was a Convict
Movie Mrs. Martha Harrison
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1938
Say It in French
Movie Mrs. Laura Carrington
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1938
Woman Against Woman
Movie Mrs. Holland
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1938
Yellow Jack
Movie Miss Macdade
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1938
Judge Hardy's Children
Movie Miss Budge
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1937
Rosalie
Movie Miss Baker
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1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie Mrs. Agatha Steward
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1937
Give Till It Hurts
Movie Cathy Gaffney
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1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Movie Mrs. Sinclair
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1937
Big City
Movie Sophie Sloane
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1937
Between Two Women
Movie Miss Pringle
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1937
The Thirteenth Chair
Movie Lady Alicia Crosby
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1937
The Good Old Soak
Movie Matilda Hawley
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1936
The Longest Night
Movie Mrs. Briggs
