[5] Other notable plays she appeared in included The Lottery Man (1909), The Concert (1910), The Purple Road (1913), Fair and Warmer (1915), The Woman in Room 13 (1919), Call the Doctor (1920), A Bill of Divorcement (1921),[7] The Love Child (1922), A Kiss in a Taxi (1925), and Courage (1928).

She remains perhaps best-remembered as a character actress during Hollywood's golden age, often seen in roles as "firm but compassionate matriarchs".

She retired from film business in 1943, but managed to play a role in the television series Lux Video Theatre in 1952.

After six years of marriage, both Beecher and Hoffman filed suit for separation, based on both the contentious messages and a disagreement about religion's influence in raising their son.

The judge who granted the divorce wrote, "both the practice of spirit writing and the content of the messages undoubtedly affected the family society.