Janet Beecher
Birthday
1884/10/20
Day of death
1955/08/06 (70 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Also know as
Janet Meysenberg
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...Read more
Acting
(1941) The Lady Eve
as Janet Pike
(1937) Rosalie
as Miss Baker
(1942) Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Mottram
(1939) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Mrs. Foote
(1937) Big City
as Sophie Sloane
(1942) A Tragedy at Midnight
as Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
(1934) The Mighty Barnum
as Nancy Barnum
(1939) Slightly Honorable
as Mrs. Cushing
(1935) Village Tale
as Amy Somerville
(1936) Love Before Breakfast
as Mrs. Colby
(1937) Give Till It Hurts
as Cathy Gaffney
(1933) Gallant Lady
as Maria Sherwood
(1934) The Last Gentleman
as Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
(1937) My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Sinclair
(1937) The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alissia Crosby
(1936) I'd Give My Life
as Stella Bancroft
(1936) The Longest Night
as Mrs. Briggs
(1937) Between Two Women
as Miss Pringle
(1937) Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Mrs. Agatha Steward
(1935) So Red the Rose
as Sally Bedford
(1938) Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Budge
(1940) Bitter Sweet
as Lady Daventry
(1942) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Olcott
(1935) The Dark Angel
as Mrs. Shannon
(1938) Say It in French
as Mrs. Laura Carrington
(1939) Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
(1939) Career
as Amy Cruthers
(1940) The Mark of Zorro
as Senora Isabella Vega
(1938) Woman Against Woman
as Mrs. Holland
(1934) The President Vanishes
as Mrs. Craig
(1943) Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
as Eloise Lowry
(1942) A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. 'Ma' Lewis
(1997) Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) The Gay Caballero
as Kate Brewster
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Miss Haines
(1937) The Good Old Soak
as Matilda Hawley
(1942) Hi, Neighbor
as Hattie Greenfield
(1941) The Parson of Panamint
as Mrs. Tweedy
(1939) Man of Conquest
as Mrs. Sarah Lea
(1939) I Was a Convict
as Mrs. Martha Harrison
(1939) Laugh It Off
as Mary Carter
(1942) Men of Texas
as Mrs. Sam Houston
(1942) Silver Queen
as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
(1941) The Man Who Lost Himself
as Mrs. Milford
(1938) Yellow Jack
as Miss Macdade
(1941) West Point Widow
as Mrs. Graves
(1935) Let's Live Tonight
as Mrs. Routledge
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
(1941) A Very Young Lady
as Miss Steele
(1941) For Beauty's Sake
as Miss Merton