Janet Beecher
Actress
70 years (Oct 20, 1884 – Aug 6, 1955)Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Careers this long are unusual: Janet Beecher is an American actress known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. Romance keeps coming back on the credit list. Television and film have both stayed in regular use across the career. In cinemas, 'The Lady Eve' is the work that stuck — Janet Pike, specifically. 'The Mark of Zorro' belongs on any short list of her work. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know.
Janet Beecher
Actress
Careers this long are unusual: Janet Beecher is an American actress known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. Romance keeps coming back on the credit list. Television and film have both stayed in regular use across the career. In cinemas, 'The Lady Eve' is the work that stuck — Janet Pike, specifically. 'The Mark of Zorro' belongs on any short list of her work. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know.
44 Movies
Plays Senora Isabella Vega
The Mark of Zorro
1940
Plays Janet Pike
The Lady Eve
1941
Plays Miss Haines
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Plays Mrs. Mottram
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Plays Miss Baker
Rosalie
1937
Plays Mrs. Foote
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Plays Sally Bedford
So Red the Rose
1935
Plays Mrs. Sinclair
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
Plays Miss Pringle
Between Two Women
1937
Plays Mrs. Sarah Lea
Man of Conquest
1939
Plays Mrs. Agatha Steward
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Plays Mrs. Briggs
The Longest Night
1936
Plays Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Silver Queen
1942
Plays Mrs. Shannon
The Dark Angel
1935
Plays Miss Budge
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
Plays Maria Sherwood
Gallant Lady
1933
Plays Mrs. Milford
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Plays Mrs. Cushing
Slightly Honorable
1939
Plays Lady Daventry
Bitter Sweet
1940
Plays Sophie Sloane
Big City
1937
Plays Mrs. Colby
Love Before Breakfast
1936
Plays Mrs. Tweedy
The Parson of Panamint
1941
Plays Mrs. Holland
Woman Against Woman
1938
Plays Mrs. Craig
The President Vanishes
1934
Plays Lady Alicia Crosby
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
Plays Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
A Letter From Bataan
1942
Plays Kate Brewster
The Gay Caballero
1940
Plays Hattie Greenfield
Hi, Neighbor
1942
Plays Cathy Gaffney
Give Till It Hurts
1937
Plays Miss Macdade
Yellow Jack
1938
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Reap the Wild Wind
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Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Eloise Lowry
1943
Silver Queen
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Olcott
1942
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
1942
Hi, Neighbor
Hattie Greenfield
1942
Men of Texas
Mrs. Sam Houston
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Mottram
1942
A Tragedy at Midnight
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
1942
The Parson of Panamint
Mrs. Tweedy
1941
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Janet Beecher still alive?
Janet Beecher passed away on August 6, 1955 at age 70.
What are the most famous roles of Janet Beecher?
Janet Beecher is best known for roles in The Lady Eve, The Mark of Zorro, Reap the Wild Wind.
How many movies has Janet Beecher been in?
Over a 40-year career (since 1915), Janet Beecher has appeared in 44 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Janet Beecher's first movie?
The career of Janet Beecher began with Fine Feathers (1915).
What is Janet Beecher's most recent movie or series?
Janet Beecher's most recent release is Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour, which premiered on April 30, 1943.
Janet Beecher
1884-10-20 · Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
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.