Janet Beecher
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA — Oct 20 1884• Died Aug 06 1955
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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"…
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Janet Beecher's Credits
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Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Mottram
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
The Lady Eve
Janet Pike
Big City
Sophie Sloane
Silver Queen
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Mrs. Foote
The Parson of Panamint
Mrs. Tweedy
Career
Amy Cruthers
All This, and Heaven Too
Miss Haines
The Mark of Zorro
Senora Isabella Vega
Yellow Jack
Miss Macdade
The President Vanishes
Mrs. Craig
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Mrs. Agatha Steward
Bitter Sweet
Lady Daventry
Rosalie
Miss Baker
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mrs. Sinclair
Slightly Honorable
Mrs. Cushing
Woman Against Woman
Mrs. Holland
Say It in French
Mrs. Laura Carrington
The Dark Angel
Mrs. Shannon
Love Before Breakfast
Mrs. Colby
So Red the Rose
Sally Bedford
A Tragedy at Midnight
Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
Men of Texas
Mrs. Sam Houston
Between Two Women
Miss Pringle
I Was a Convict
Mrs. Martha Harrison
Man of Conquest
Mrs. Sarah Lea
Let's Live Tonight
Mrs. Routledge
A Very Young Lady
Miss Steele
Hi, Neighbor
Hattie Greenfield
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Eloise Lowry
Village Tale
Amy Somerville
I'd Give My Life
Stella Bancroft
Judge Hardy's Children
Miss Budge
West Point Widow
Mrs. Graves
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Olcott
The Last Gentleman
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
The Thirteenth Chair
Lady Alicia Crosby
For Beauty's Sake
Miss Merton
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
The Man Who Lost Himself
Mrs. Milford
The Gay Caballero
Kate Brewster
The Longest Night
Mrs. Briggs
The Mighty Barnum
Nancy Barnum
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
Laugh It Off
Mary Carter
The Good Old Soak
Matilda Hawley
Gallant Lady
Maria Sherwood
Give Till It Hurts
Cathy Gaffney
Fine Feathers