Janet Beecher
Birthday: 1884-10-20
Place of Birth: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
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.
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The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch...
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Rosalie
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Europ...
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Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvage...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...
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Big City
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New ...
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A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find ...
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The Mighty Barnum
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Bee...
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Slightly Honorable
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....
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Village Tale
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love ver...
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Love Before Breakfast
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K...
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Give Till It Hurts
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselve...
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Gallant Lady
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies....
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The Last Gentleman
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arli...
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters....
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The Thirteenth Chair
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance....
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I'd Give My Life
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully co...
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The Longest Night
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner....
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Between Two Women
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of...
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So Red the Rose
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to re...
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Judge Hardy's Children
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambass...
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Bitter Sweet
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of chi...
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The Dark Angel
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has ...
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Say It in French
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married ...
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Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....
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Career
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long a...
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The Mark of Zorro
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...
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Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence...
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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...
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Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The ...
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A Letter From Bataan
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources....
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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The Gay Caballero
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only...
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All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du...
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The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....
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Hi, Neighbor
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music an...
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The Parson of Panamint
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old pr...
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Man of Conquest
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republ...
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I Was a Convict
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he become...
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Laugh It Off
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub....
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Men of Texas
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in ...
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Silver Queen
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds...
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Yellow Jack
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yello...
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West Point Widow
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but th...
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Let's Live Tonight
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mai...
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Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars....
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A Very Young Lady
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the ...
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For Beauty's Sake
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang o...
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