Spring Byington Movies

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...

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

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.

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 family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret...

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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 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....

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

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

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 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 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...

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