Spring Byington
Acting
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.
Born: October 16, 1886
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
The Great Impersonation
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 if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
I Dream of Jeannie
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 South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Devil and Miss Jones
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 Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Quick Millions
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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 honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Mother General
as J. Pauline Spaghetti
as Mother
as Suzie Robinson
as Daisy Cooper
as Mrs. Miller
as Alice Wagner
as Lily Ruskin
as Justice Amelia Brown
as Eloise Adams
as Aunt Cordelia
as Mrs. Edna Montville
as Mama Kingshead
as Sister Edwitha
as Mrs. Loomis
as Mrs. Harriet Hoyle
as Mrs. Brentman
as Mrs. Masters
as Agnes Thorndyke
as Louisa Norton
as Mrs. Milwright
as Kathy's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Mary Coy
as Nellie Burke
as Gladys Fulton
as Martha Stafford
as Carrie Bishop Jannings
as Mrs. Bellows
as Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan
as Mrs. Starwell
as Mrs. 'Ma' Penrose
as Miss Mary Swanson
as Magda
as Mrs. McPherson
as Sylvia Kane Storm
as Mrs. Frost
as Nona Glenn
as Violet Price
as Mrs. Brooks
as Mrs. Marshall
as Peggy's mother
as Nancy Potter
as Bertha Van Cleve
as Mrs. Mars
as Cecilia Talbot
as Sophia Sommerfield
as Mrs. Maybelle Worthington
as Mary Sunshine
as Rosa Yancey
as Bridget 'Bridgie' Drake
as Carlotta Emerson
as Elizabeth Ellis
as Mme Mitchell
as Mary Shoemaker
as Aunt Lucy
as Clara Malette
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. Stanton
as Mummy Tyl
as Mrs. Mamie West
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. John Jones
as Josephine Fippany
as Dolly Madison (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. Hubbard
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. John Jones
as Penny Sycamore
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. Kendrick
as Louise Jones
as Mrs. Schofield
as Widow Douglas (uncredited)
as Dolly Madison
as Mrs. John Jones
as Aunt Ella
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. Parkhouse
as Ernst's Mother
as Emily Hardy
as Mrs. Schofield
as Mrs. Dexter
as Mrs. Wheeler
as Mrs. John Jones
as Rebecca Perry
as Lady Octavia Warrenton
as Mrs. Langford
as Matey Pearson
as Mrs. Randall
as Louise Jones
as Aunt Letty
as Mrs. John Jones
as Mrs. Evers
as Ma Davis
as Essie Miller
as Duchess Caroline
as Mrs. Duncan-Griswold-Wembly-Smythe
as Mrs. Byam
as Mrs. Louisa Bartlett
as Alice Draper
as Clara Fields
as Ettie Coombes
as Marmee