Janet Beecher

Janet Beecher

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.

  • Title: Janet Beecher
  • Popularity: 3.951
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1884-10-20
  • Place of Birth: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Janet Meysenberg
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  • 1941
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    The Lady Eve

    The Lady Eve

    7.238 1941 HD

    It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...

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    Rosalie

    Rosalie

    5.5 1937 HD

    West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

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    Reap the Wild Wind

    Reap the Wild Wind

    6.4 1942 HD

    The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...

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    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    7 1939 HD

    In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

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    Big City

    Big City

    7.4 1937 HD

    Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

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    A Tragedy at Midnight

    A Tragedy at Midnight

    4 1942 HD

    The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

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    The Mighty Barnum

    The Mighty Barnum

    0.5 1934 HD

    20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind),...

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    Slightly Honorable

    Slightly Honorable

    5.1 1939 HD

    A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

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    Village Tale

    Village Tale

    4.5 1935 HD

    The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.

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    Love Before Breakfast

    Love Before Breakfast

    5.8 1936 HD

    Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues...

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    Give Till It Hurts

    Give Till It Hurts

    5.5 1937 HD

    This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for...

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    Gallant Lady

    Gallant Lady

    6 1933 HD

    Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

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    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    6.1 1937 HD

    A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

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    The Last Gentleman

    The Last Gentleman

    3 1934 HD

    In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate...

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    The Thirteenth Chair

    The Thirteenth Chair

    5.8 1937 HD

    A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

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    I'd Give My Life

    I'd Give My Life

    6 1936 HD

    The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a...

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    The Longest Night

    The Longest Night

    5.7 1936 HD

    Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

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    Between Two Women

    Between Two Women

    5.7 1937 HD

    Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love...

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    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    4.5 1937 HD

    We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

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    So Red the Rose

    So Red the Rose

    6 1935 HD

    During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a...

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  • 1938
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    Judge Hardy's Children

    Judge Hardy's Children

    6.3 1938 HD

    Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

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  • 1940
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    Bitter Sweet

    Bitter Sweet

    5.8 1940 HD

    A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

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  • 1942
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    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

    1 1942 HD

    In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband,...

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    The Dark Angel

    The Dark Angel

    6.2 1935 HD

    Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has...

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    Say It in French

    Say It in French

    1 1938 HD

    An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

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    Land of Liberty

    Land of Liberty

    1 1939 HD

    This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

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    Career

    Career

    1 1939 HD

    Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart...

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    The Mark of Zorro

    The Mark of Zorro

    7 1940 HD

    Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays...

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    Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

    6.5 1938 HD

    A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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    The President Vanishes

    The President Vanishes

    7 1934 HD

    The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...

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  • 1943
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    Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour

    Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour

    6 1943 HD

    Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of...

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    A Letter From Bataan

    A Letter From Bataan

    4.5 1942 HD

    An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

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    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    7 1997 HD

    Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

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  • 1940
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    The Gay Caballero

    The Gay Caballero

    5.2 1940 HD

    The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have...

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    All This, and Heaven Too

    All This, and Heaven Too

    7.1 1940 HD

    When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...

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    The Good Old Soak

    The Good Old Soak

    1 1937 HD

    A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

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  • 1942
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    Hi, Neighbor

    Hi, Neighbor

    1 1942 HD

    A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.

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    The Parson of Panamint

    The Parson of Panamint

    5 1941 HD

    As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the...

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    Man of Conquest

    Man of Conquest

    5.2 1939 HD

    The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

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    I Was a Convict

    I Was a Convict

    5 1939 HD

    In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...

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    Laugh It Off

    Laugh It Off

    2 1939 HD

    Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.

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  • 1942
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    Men of Texas

    Men of Texas

    1 1942 HD

    A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.

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  • 1942
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    Silver Queen

    Silver Queen

    5.6 1942 HD

    A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

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  • 1941
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    The Man Who Lost Himself

    The Man Who Lost Himself

    4 1941 HD

    John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

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  • 1938
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    Yellow Jack

    Yellow Jack

    5.6 1938 HD

    A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the...

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  • 1941
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    West Point Widow

    West Point Widow

    6 1941 HD

    In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage...

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  • 1935
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    Let's Live Tonight

    Let's Live Tonight

    1 1935 HD

    Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At...

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  • 1939
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    Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

    Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

    6 1939 HD

    The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.

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  • 1941
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    A Very Young Lady

    A Very Young Lady

    1 1941 HD

    A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

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  • 1941
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    For Beauty's Sake

    For Beauty's Sake

    1 1941 HD

    A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

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