Spring Byington Movies

  • 1947
    Living in a Big Way

    Living in a Big Way

    Living in a Big Way

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    A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

    Living in a Big Way
  • 1936
    Educating Father

    Educating Father

    Educating Father

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    Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

    Educating Father
  • 1946
    A Letter for Evie

    A Letter for Evie

    A Letter for Evie

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    Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size...

    A Letter for Evie
  • 1938
    A Trip to Paris

    A Trip to Paris

    A Trip to Paris

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    The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be...

    A Trip to Paris
  • 1941
    Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

    Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

    Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

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    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...

    Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
  • 1939
    The Jones Family in Hollywood

    The Jones Family in Hollywood

    The Jones Family in Hollywood

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

    The Jones Family in Hollywood
  • 1940
    Laddie

    Laddie

    Laddie

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    Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

    Laddie
  • 1948
    B.F.'s Daughter

    B.F.'s Daughter

    B.F.'s Daughter

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    Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

    B.F.'s Daughter
  • 1936
    The Girl on the Front Page

    The Girl on the Front Page

    The Girl on the Front Page

    01936HD

    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 Girl on the Front Page
  • 1936
    Every Saturday Night

    Every Saturday Night

    Every Saturday Night

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    First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

    Every Saturday Night
  • 1937
    Hot Water

    Hot Water

    Hot Water

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

    Hot Water
  • 1936
    Stage Struck

    Stage Struck

    Stage Struck

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    A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

    Stage Struck
  • 1984
    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

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    Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

    Going Hollywood: The '30s
  • 1946
    Meet Me on Broadway

    Meet Me on Broadway

    Meet Me on Broadway

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    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...

    Meet Me on Broadway
  • 1935
    Orchids to You

    Orchids to You

    Orchids to You

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    An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

    Orchids to You
  • 1937
    Clarence

    Clarence

    Clarence

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    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....

    Clarence
  • 1937
    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

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    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,...

    Hotel Haywire
  • 1938
    Down on the Farm

    Down on the Farm

    Down on the Farm

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

    Down on the Farm
  • 1944
    Reward Unlimited

    Reward Unlimited

    Reward Unlimited

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

    Reward Unlimited
  • 1936
    Back to Nature

    Back to Nature

    Back to Nature

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    The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and...

    Back to Nature