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Spring Byington

American actress (1886–1971)

Spring Dell Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress.^[1] Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a MGM contract player who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Byington received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Penelope Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Early life

Byington was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the daughter of Edwin Lee Byington, an educator^[2] and superintendent of schools in Colorado, and his wife Helene Maud (Cleghorn) Byington, later, a doctor. She had a younger sister, Helene Kimball Byington. Her father died in 1891, and her mother sent her younger daughter to live with her grandparents in Port Hope, Ontario, while Spring remained with relatives in Denver. Helene Maud Byington moved to Boston and enrolled in the Boston University School of Medicine, where she graduated in 1896. She then returned to Denver and opene

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Spring Byington (1886-1974)

Spring Byingtonwas a popular and highly skilled character actress whose career began in the silent era and who appeared in over 60 films and 19 Broadway productions during her acting career. She became a movie actress relatively late at the age of forty-four but even when she was younger she specialised in portraying middle-aged mothers, and small town gossipy women. She went on to appear in many successful, high quality movies during Hollywood's Golden Age, including 'Little Women' in 1933, 'Mutiny on the Bounty' in 1935, 'The Devil and Miss Jones' in 1941, 'Dragonwyck' in 1946 and 'Louisa' in 1950.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film 'You Can't Take it With You' in 1938 and she was also one of the first movie actresses to establish herself on the new medium of television in the 1950s.

Biography

She was born Spring Dell Byington on October 17, 1886 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had one younger sister, Helene. Her father, a superintendent of schools in Colorado, died when she was five year

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Spring Byington

ActressBorn Spring Dell Byinton on Oct. 17, 1886in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Died Sept. 7, 1971 of cancer in Hollywood, CA

Veteran character actress Spring Byington is best remembered for her five-year starring role in the "December Bride" television series in the 1950s.

A native of Colorado Springs, Colo., Byington began acting at age 14 when she joined a stock company in Denver. In a career spanning almost 70 years, Byington appeared in more than 30 stage plays and 75 feature films including 1933's "Little Women," "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

But her signature role was Lily Ruskin, the often scatterbrained but wise mother-in-law of the CBS radio and television sitcom "December Bride." That role, which won her an Emmy nomination in 1958, "elevated the stature of the meddling, stereotyped mother-in-law to that of family heroine ..." according to one TV critic. The series ran from 1954 to 1959. Byington also played a supporting role in the NBC western series "Laramie" in 1961.

Byington married Roy Carey Chandler in 1915, and the