Spring Byington Movies

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.

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...

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...

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

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

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

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.

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

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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

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

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

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

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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...

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men...

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...

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...

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...