Spring Byington
Popularity:0.652
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1886-10-16
Place of Birth:Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Also Known As:Spring Dell Byington

Jezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...

Dodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

The Heavenly Body (1944)
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.

Dragonwyck (1946)
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation...

In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Meet John Doe (1941)
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Werewolf of London (1935)
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Devil's Doorway (1950)
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

The Blue Bird (1940)
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop...

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department...

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...

Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' (1997)
Documentary about the making of Disney's Animated Classic.

Little Women (1933)
Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences...

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....

Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of...

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While...

Singapore (1947)
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar...

When Ladies Meet (1941)
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he...

B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and...

It Had to Be You (1947)
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

Roxie Hart (1942)
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

The Big Wheel (1949)
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have....

Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance...

It's Love I'm After (1937)
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

Salty O'Rourke (1945)
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

A Family Affair (1937)
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan...

The Rocket Man (1954)
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a...

No Room for the Groom (1952)
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother,...

Lucky Partners (1940)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Living in a Big Way (1947)
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

Orchids to You (1935)
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Penrod and Sam (1937)
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Cynthia (1947)
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races....

Big Business (1937)
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Broadway Hostess (1935)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Little Mister Jim (1947)
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.

Stage Struck (1936)
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

My Love Came Back (1940)
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

Bannerline (1951)
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

A Letter for Evie (1946)
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size...

The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Way Down East (1935)
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret...

Love on a Budget (1938)
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...

Thrill of a Romance (1945)
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

Palm Springs (1936)
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

A Child Is Born (1939)
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

A Trip to Paris (1938)
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be...

The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

Please Believe Me (1950)
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men...

Land of Liberty (1939)
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Laddie (1940)
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

Meet Me on Broadway (1946)
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress...

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...

Too Busy to Work (1939)
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge...

Arkansas Judge (1941)
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.

Quick Millions (1939)
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.

Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading...

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

On Their Own (1940)
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and...

Clarence (1937)
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone....

Hotel Haywire (1937)
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires,...

Every Saturday Night (1936)
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Educating Father (1936)
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her...

Everybody's Baby (1939)
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Love Me Forever (1935)
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

Captain Eddie (1945)
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Louisa (1950)
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically...

Angels in the Outfield (1951)
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

Young as You Feel (1940)
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go...

Green Light (1937)
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...

The Buccaneer (1938)
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

Reward Unlimited (1944)
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The Great Impersonation (1935)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

Back to Nature (1936)
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and...

Hot Water (1937)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Borrowing Trouble (1937)
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Down on the Farm (1938)
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Safety in Numbers (1938)
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Off to the Races (1937)
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

Because You're Mine (1952)
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.

The Road Back (1937)
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

December Bride (1954)
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series...

Batman (1966)
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.

Dennis the Menace (1959)
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic,...

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

Laramie (1959)
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John...

The Detectives (1959)
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

The Danny Thomas Show (1953)
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.

The Ford Show (1956)
The Ford Show is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from...

The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted...

What's My Line? (1950)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...