Spring Byington Movies

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

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar...

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

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 U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge...

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...

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....

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.

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

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

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,...