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Janet Beecher is a Actor American born on 20 october 1884 at Jefferson City (USA)

Janet Beecher

Janet Beecher
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Birth name Janet Meysenburg
Nationality USA
Birth 20 october 1884 at Jefferson City (USA)
Death 6 august 1955 (at 70 years) at Washington (USA)

Janet Beecher (October 21, 1884 – August 6, 1955), born Janet Meysenburg, was an American stage and screen actress. She was a supporting player and lead on the Broadway stage. In the 1930s, she moved into motion pictures as a character actress. Her sister was actress Olive Wyndham. She was married twice: first to Harry R. Guggenheimer and then to Richard H. Hoffman. She had a son named Richard.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme de Janet Beecher, elle entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre et joue à Broadway (New York) dans vingt-trois pièces entre 1905 et 1932 (plus une opérette en 1913). De cette première période, mentionnons Fair and Warmer d'Avery Hopwood (avec Madge Kennedy et Ralph Morgan), représentée 377 fois en 1915-1916.

Excepté un unique film muet d'origine théâtrale sorti en 1915, elle contribue ensuite à quarante-huit films américains, le premier sorti en 1933, le dernier en 1943. Citons L'Ange des ténèbres de Sidney Franklin (1935, avec Fredric March et Merle Oberon), La Grande Ville de Frank Borzage (1937, avec Luise Rainer et Spencer Tracy), Le Signe de Zorro de Rouben Mamoulian (1940, avec Tyrone Power et Linda Darnell), ou encore Un cœur pris au piège de Preston Sturges (1941, avec Barbara Stanwyck et Henry Fonda).

Après son retrait de l'écran, Janet Beecher revient à Broadway dans deux ultimes pièces, la première jouée en juin 1944. La seconde est Feu George Apley de John P. Marquand et George S. Kaufman (où elle tient la vedette aux côtés de Leo G. Carroll), représentée 384 fois de novembre 1944 à novembre 1945.

Enfin, elle apparaît une fois à la télévision, dans le cadre de la série Lux Video Theatre , à l'occasion d'un épisode diffusé en 1952 (trois ans avant sa mort, d'une crise cardiaque).

Best films

The Dark Angel (1935)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Janet Beecher (41 films)

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Actress

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour, 1h12
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney, Diana Lynn, Frances Gifford
Roles Eloise Lowry
Rating63% 3.186943.186943.186943.186943.18694
Henry Aldrich becomes the most sought after guy in town when he win a date with movie star.
Reap the Wild Wind, 2h3
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Roles Mrs. Mottram
Rating65% 3.297923.297923.297923.297923.29792
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...
Silver Queen, 1h20
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette
Roles Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Rating58% 2.908142.908142.908142.908142.90814
En 1873 à New York, le joueur professionnel James Kincaid tombe amoureux de Coralie, fille de l'homme d'affaires Stephen Adams, que courtise également le riche Gerald Forsythe. Après la mort de son père, ruiné par un krach boursier et le jeu, Coralie disparaît alors qu'elle est assaillie par les créanciers. James la retrouve en 1877 à San Francisco, où elle est devenue la propriétaire d'un casino, connue sous le surnom de La Reine de l'argent...
Men of Texas, 1h22
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Robert Stack, Jackie Cooper, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Ralph Bellamy
Roles Mrs. Sam Houston
Rating64% 3.2486653.2486653.2486653.2486653.248665
West Point Widow, 1h3
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Frances Gifford, Ethel Clayton, Maude Eburne
Roles Mrs. Graves
Rating66% 3.303053.303053.303053.303053.30305
Nancy Hull, une infirmière repousse les demandes en mariage de deux médecins pour l'amour d'un champion de football.
The Lady Eve, 1h34
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about marriage
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore
Roles Janet Pike
Rating76% 3.845983.845983.845983.845983.84598
Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). Pike is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands.
All This, and Heaven Too, 2h21
Directed by Anatole Litvak, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Daniell, Walter Hampden
Roles Miss Haines
Rating73% 3.697413.697413.697413.697413.69741
Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Bette Davis), a French woman, starts teaching at an American girls school. She is confronted by the tales and gossip about her that circulate among her pupils and, thus provoked, she decides to tell them her life story.
The Mark of Zorro, 1h34
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Children's films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Senora Isabella Vega
Rating74% 3.744713.744713.744713.744713.74471
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of wealthy ranchero and former Alcade Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), having returned to California after his military education in Spain. Don Diego is horrified at the way the common people are mistreated by the corrupt Alcalde, Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg), who had forced his father from the position. Don Diego then adopts the guise of El Zorro ("The Fox"), a masked outlaw, who becomes the defender of the common people and a champion for justice. Meanwhile, he romances the Alcalde's beautiful and innocent niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), whom he grows to love. As part of his plan, Don Diego simultaneously flirts with the Alcalde's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard), filling her head with tales of Madrid fashion and culture and raising her desire to move there with her corrupt husband. In both his guises, Don Diego must contend with the governor's ablest henchman, the malevolent Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). He eventually dispatches the Captain in a fast-moving rapier duel-to-the-death, forcing a regime change, Don Diego's plan all along.
Bitter Sweet, 1h34
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Ian Hunter, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Roles Lady Daventry
Rating58% 2.9032652.9032652.9032652.9032652.903265
Set in late 19th century Vienna, the story focuses on the romance between music teacher Carl Linden (Nelson Eddy) and his prize pupil Sarah Milick (Jeanette MacDonald).
The Gay Caballero, 58minutes
Directed by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Chris-Pin Martin, Janet Beecher, Charles Montague Shaw
Roles Kate Brewster
Rating59% 2.9968852.9968852.9968852.9968852.996885
In a case of mistaken identity, the Cisco Kid and his sidekick Gordito arrive in town only to learn that Cisco has been declared dead. Even worse than that, before he died, Cisco was accused of having tried to steal Susan Wetherby's land. Cisco must prove both his identity and his innocence.