Movies: Spring Byington

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 cute couple getting together....

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

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives....

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

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 ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't...

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....

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

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

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

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 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 the youngest son gets into photography....

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

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

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....

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, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is...

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon....

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

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

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....

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 back home....