Spring Byington Movies

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson...

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,...

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...

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

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....

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.

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...

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.