Spring Byington Movies

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

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.

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.

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....

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.

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

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....

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...

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her...

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a...

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...

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...

During World War II, Evie O'Connor, a secretary at Trojan Shirt Company, yearns for a tall, strong man to love her. When she slides an anonymous note...

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...

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...

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...

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

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.