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Aliases: Janet Meysenberg

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

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Movie Involvements: 29

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Mark of Zorro
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7

The Mark of Zorro

(1940) Senora Isabella Vega
Reap the Wild Wind
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6

Reap the Wild Wind

(1942) Mrs. Mottram
All This, and Heaven Too
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7

All This, and Heaven Too

(1940) Miss Haines
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
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7
Men of Texas
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Men of Texas

(1942) Mrs. Sam Houston
The Gay Caballero
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5

The Gay Caballero

(1940) Kate Brewster
The Thirteenth Chair
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6

The Thirteenth Chair

(1937) Lady Alissia Crosby
So Red the Rose
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6

So Red the Rose

(1935) Sally Bedford

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1943 Eloise Lowry
1942 Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Mrs. Olcott
Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
Hattie Greenfield
Mrs. Sam Houston
Mrs. Mottram
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
1941 Mrs. Tweedy
Miss Steele
Mrs. Graves
Miss Merton
Mrs. Milford
Janet Pike
1940 Senora Isabella Vega
Lady Daventry
Kate Brewster
Miss Haines
1939 Mrs. Cushing
Mary Carter
N/A
Amy Cruthers
(archive footage)
Mrs. Sarah Lea
Mrs. Foote
Mrs. Martha Harrison
1938 Mrs. Laura Carrington
Mrs. Holland
Miss Macdade
Miss Budge
1937 Miss Baker
Mrs. Agatha Steward
Cathy Gaffney
Mrs. Sinclair
Sophie Sloane
Miss Pringle
Lady Alissia Crosby
Matilda Hawley
1936 Mrs. Briggs
Stella Bancroft
Mrs. Colby
1935 Sally Bedford
Mrs. Shannon
Amy Somerville
N/A
1934 Nancy Barnum
Mrs. Craig
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
1933 Maria Sherwood
Year Character Movie/Tv

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