Cast & creator
Janet Beecher
Best known for The Mark of Zorro, Reap the Wild Wind, All This, and Heaven Too
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.
Also known as: Janet Meysenberg
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Filmography (51)
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The Mark of Zorro
Senora Isabella Vega
1940
Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Mottram
1942
All This, and Heaven Too
Miss Haines
1940
The Lady Eve
Janet Pike
1941
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Mrs. Foote
1939
A Tragedy at Midnight
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
1942
Gallant Lady
Maria Sherwood
1933
Rosalie
Miss Baker
1937
So Red the Rose
Sally Bedford
1935
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Mrs. Agatha Steward
1937
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
1997
The Man Who Lost Himself
Mrs. Milford
1941
The Dark Angel
Mrs. Shannon
1935
Judge Hardy's Children
Miss Budge
1938
The Parson of Panamint
Mrs. Tweedy
1941
Between Two Women
Miss Pringle
1937
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Olcott
1942
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
1939
Bitter Sweet
Lady Daventry
1940
Big City
Sophie Sloane
1937Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
1939
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mrs. Sinclair
1937
A Very Young Lady
Miss Steele
1941
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Eloise Lowry
1943
For Beauty's Sake
Miss Merton
1941
The President Vanishes
Mrs. Craig
1934
Say It in French
Mrs. Laura Carrington
1938
Village Tale
Amy Somerville
1935
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
1942
Let's Live Tonight
Mrs. Routledge
1935
Fine Feathers
1915
The Good Old Soak
Matilda Hawley
1937
Silver Queen
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
1942
Love Before Breakfast
Mrs. Colby
1936
Slightly Honorable
Mrs. Cushing
1939
Man of Conquest
Mrs. Sarah Lea
1939I Was a Convict
Mrs. Martha Harrison
1939I'd Give My Life
Stella Bancroft
1936
West Point Widow
Mrs. Graves
1941
The Last Gentleman
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
1934Laugh It Off
Mary Carter
1939
Men of Texas
Mrs. Sam Houston
1942
The Gay Caballero
Kate Brewster
1940
Give Till It Hurts
Cathy Gaffney
1937
The Thirteenth Chair
Lady Alicia Crosby
1937
Career
Amy Cruthers
1939
The Longest Night
Mrs. Briggs
1936
Woman Against Woman
Mrs. Holland
1938
The Mighty Barnum
Nancy Barnum
1934
Yellow Jack
Miss Macdade
1938
Hi, Neighbor
Hattie Greenfield
1942