Spring Byington
Birthday: 1886-10-16
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a key MGM contract player, appearing in films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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Jezebel
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...
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I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough fr...
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Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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The Heavenly Body
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a ne...
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Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...
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In the Good Old Summertime
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...
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Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who ...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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The Reformer and the Redhead
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper....
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Werewolf of London
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster....
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Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people....
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The Blue Bird
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness...
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The Enchanted Cottage
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his ...
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Presenting Lily Mars
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role bu...
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The Devil and Miss Jones
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. O...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful...
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Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
Documentary about the making of Disney's Animated Classic....
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying ...
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Heaven Can Wait
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a...
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apart...
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Singapore
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h...
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When Ladies Meet
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor J...
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B.F.'s Daughter
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired we...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...
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It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality....
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Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc...
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The Big Wheel
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....
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Rings on Her Fingers
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful cl...
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Ah, Wilderness!
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of g...
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It's Love I'm After
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady....
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Salty O'Rourke
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse....
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a stud...
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A Family Affair
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions an...
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The Rocket Man
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doi...
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No Room for the Groom
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night ar...
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Lucky Partners
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results....
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Living in a Big Way
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father ...
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Orchids to You
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's mar...
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of ...
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Penrod and Sam
A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out....
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Cynthia
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date....
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horse...
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Big Business
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil...
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Broadway Hostess
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....
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Little Mister Jim
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking....
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Stage Struck
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi...
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My Love Came Back
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodn...
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A Letter for Evie
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire ...
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The Affairs of Martha
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i...
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Way Down East
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo...
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Love on a Budget
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending ...
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Thrill of a Romance
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business mee...
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Palm Springs
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughte...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....
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A Trip to Paris
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jone...
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The Vanishing Virginian
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does h...
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Please Believe Me
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage t...
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Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....
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Laddie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military fat...
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Meet Me on Broadway
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh...
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Theodora Goes Wild
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little...
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Too Busy to Work
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run...
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Faithful in My Fashion
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, i...
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Arkansas Judge
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accu...
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Quick Millions
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at ...
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters....
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Chicken Wagon Family
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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On Their Own
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business...
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Clarence
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things,...
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Hotel Haywire
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise ...
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Every Saturday Night
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through...
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Educating Father
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi...
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the...
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Everybody's Baby
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o...
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Love Me Forever
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her ca...
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Captain Eddie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an...
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Louisa
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to dis...
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Angels in the Outfield
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine as...
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The Girl on the Front Page
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps br...
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Young as You Feel
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life....
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Green Light
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's ...
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Reward Unlimited
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....
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The Great Impersonation
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in...
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Back to Nature
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with...
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Hot Water
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new...
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Borrowing Trouble
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l...
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Down on the Farm
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest....
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Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d...
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Off to the Races
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps...
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Because You're Mine
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp....
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The Road Back
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to '...
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