Spring Byington Movies

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

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically...

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...

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

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

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.

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

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a...

At the end of the Great War, German soldiers return home to find the social fabric and civil order disintegrating as communist gangs roam the...