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Looking for reviews of Janet Beecher movies? Cinafilm has a total of 528 reviews across 11 movies.
Movies starring Janet Beecher have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
The Lady Eve - released in 1941 - is Janet Beecher's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 306 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Janet Beecher is Rosalie - released in 1937 - with a score of 49% based on 6 reviews.
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.
Janet Beecher has acted in films with William Demarest, Victor Varconi, Victor Kilian and Bess Flowers.
Janet Beecher has worked with these film directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Sidney Franklin, Frank Borzage and Walter Lang.
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