Janet Beecher
Рождение : 1884-10-21, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Смерть : 1955-08-06
История
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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.
Eloise Lowry
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
Mrs. Olcott
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
A soldier pleads to the folks to home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
Hattie Greenfield
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.
Mrs. Sam Houston
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
Mrs. Mottram
1840-е. Ки-Уэст полон службами спасателей, которые зарабатывают подъемом грузов с затонувших кораблей. Владелец судна Локси Клейборн подозревает в нечестной игре спасателя Кинга Катлера — тот всегда оказывается в нужном месте, стоит произойти кораблекрушению…
Mrs. Tweedy
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).
Miss Steele
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
Mrs. Graves
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Miss Merton
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Mrs. Milford
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Janet Pike
После года проведенного на Амазонке, хороший знаток змей, но плохой знаток женщин, на океанском лайнере возвращается домой Чарльз Пайк. Он сын пивного короля и каждая девушка мечтает о знакомстве с ним. Но только Джин удается с маху преодолеть его рассеянность и застенчивость. Бедняга как муха на мед летит в объятия напористой искусительницы, не подозревая, что у Джин совсем не романтические планы… Она и ее отец — знаменитые карточные шулера и для нее охмурить мужчину, что передернуть колоду…
Senora Isabella Vega
Молодой щёголь Диего Вега возвращается из Испании в родную Калифорнию, где его отец был алькальдом (мэром) Лос-Анджелеса. Однако те времена давно прошли: сейчас в этой местности заправляет новый алькальд Луис Кинтеро, поддерживаемый войсками капитана Эстебана Паскуале. Они беззастенчиво повышают налоги, ввергая и без того не богатых крестьян в настоящую нищету, а пытающихся сопротивляться подвергают жестоким наказаниям. Однако вскоре после приезда Диего в окрестностях появляется некто Зорро, решивший бросить вызов творящимся несправедливостям…
Lady Daventry
Цветная экранизация одноименной оперетты Ноэля Коварда посвящена истории любви англичанки Сары Миллик и ее учителя пения, австрийца Карла Линдена. Сбежав с Карлом накануне своего венчания, Сара отправляется в Вену - город чудесной музыки, где радость и грусть смешались в ритме вальса. Счастливый Карл пишет оперетту, с которой собирается покорить весь мир, однако милости судьбы не безграничны: барон фон Траниш, капитан гусар, положивший глаз на девушку, не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы заполучить ее, - а Гарри Дэвентри, обманутый жених Сары, всегда готов доложить Карлу о "неверности" его супруги. Судьба романа решится на скоропалительной дуэли...
Kate Brewster
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
Miss Haines
В 1846 году Онриэт Деспотс приплывает из Азии во Францию, чтобы стать гувернанткой в доме герцога Дюка де Праслена. Девушка видит, что в доме царит очень нервная обстановка, и виной тому супруга хозяина. Герцогиня Душесс — невротичная собственница, которая должна все контролировать и все, кто окружают ее, должны подчиняться только ей. От этого страдают больше всего четверо детей, которые лишены материнской ласки и любви.
Онриэт решает исправить положение и при помощи своего педагогического дара возвращает детям интерес к жизни и приветливое отношение к людям. Она становится им второй матерью, проводя с ними целые дни вместе. Хозяин дома герцог Дюк де Праслен начинает оказывать знаки внимания гувернантке. Жестокая госпожа Душесс, замечая положительные перемены в доме, очень возмущена и готова принять любые меры, чтобы избавиться от милой Онриэт Деспотс…
Mrs. Cushing
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Mary Carter
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.
Amy Cruthers
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
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This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Mrs. Sarah Lea
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Mrs. Foote
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Mrs. Martha Harrison
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Mrs. Laura Carrington
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Mrs. Holland
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Miss Macdade
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Miss Budge
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Miss Baker
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
Mrs. Agatha Steward
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
Cathy Gaffney
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.
Mrs. Sinclair
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Sophie Sloane
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Miss Pringle
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Lady Alissia Crosby
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Matilda Hawley
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Mrs. Briggs
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Stella Bancroft
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
Mrs. Colby
Кей Колбай, красивая девушка из семьи аристократов, провожает своего жениха, который вынужден срочно уплыть в Японию по делам фирмы. В порту она встречает своего знакомого миллионера Скота Миллера, который также провожает свою подругу графиню Камплейнлле с целым выводком маленьких собачек в страну восходящего солнца.
Все опечалены расставанием и когда корабль отчаливает, Кей и Скот, чтобы успокоить, нервы, отправляются в бар выпить по чашке кофе. Во время беседы Кей узнает, что оказывается, миллионер давно в нее влюблен, он специально отправил свою подружку в плавание и организовал срочную командировку жениха Кей, перед этим купив фирму в которой тот работал.
Девушка возмущена до глубины души, и требует прекратить такие навязчивые формы ухаживания. Но богач не сдается. Он делает все, чтобы женщина, которую он полюбил, осталась с ним, тем более мама девушки очень симпатизирует нагловатому будущему зятю...
Sally Bedford
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
Mrs. Shannon
История о том, что сильнее любящего сердца может быть только три любящих сердца.
Amy Somerville
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Nancy Barnum
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
Mrs. Craig
Президент внезапно пропал, причём в самый неподходящий для страны момент, накануне надвигающейся войны и возможного импичмента.
Helen Barr, Cabot's daughter
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.
Maria Sherwood
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
