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Biography of Spring Byington - Actress
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Spring Byington (17 October 1886 - 7 September 1971) was an United States|American actress. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she began acting on the stage in Denver, Colorado|Denver at the age of 14. She eventually performed on Broadway, and then debuted in movies in the 1933 production of Little Women (1933 movie)|Little Women. In 1938, Byington was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for You Can't Take it With You. Other movies included Mutiny on the Bounty, Way Down East, Dodsworth, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Devil and Miss Jones, Meet John Doe, Roxie Hart, Heaven Can Wait (1943)|Heaven Can Wait, I'll Be Seeing You, The Enchanted Cottage and In the Good Old Summertime. By the early 1950s, Byington's movie career was on the wane, when she was cast as the flighty mother-in-law in the television sitcom December Bride, which ran from 1954 - 1959. From 1961 - 1963, she appeared in the Western (genre)|Western series Laramie (TV series)|Laramie. Byington has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 6507 Hollywood Blvd. and one for television at 6233 Hollywood Blvd.

