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Longtime companion of Marjorie Main.

In August 1955, she began flying lessons in Glendale, California; but the studio made her stop because of insurance problems.

Acquired a small coffee plantation in South America in her later years.

Following her death in 1971, her body was donated for medical research.

She and Lionel Barrymore played wife and husband in Ah, Wilderness! (1935). Three years later, they played daughter and father in Lebenskünstler (1938).

Spring and Lionel Barrymore were initially cast as Ma and Pa Hardy in the Andy Hardy film series starring Mickey Rooney. However, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided to replace the couple with Fay Holden and Lewis Stone before the series started.

She was a lifelong science fiction fan, and appeared in print ads for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction at the height of her TV popularity.

Acting mentor and friends with Harry Morgan.

Became a grandmother for the 1st time at age 55 when her daughter Lois gave birth to a son, James Alexander Graham on October 30, 1941.

She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture at 6507 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6231 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

She performed in reference footage for Walt Disney's Dornröschen und der Prinz (1959).

Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

Gave birth to her 2nd child, a daughter Lois Chandler, with her husband Roy Carey Chandler (1917).

Met Harry Morgan on the set of the period drama Weißer Oleander (1946). Eight years later, he would co-star opposite Byington on December Bride (1954).

Gave birth to her 1st child, a daughter Phyllis Chandler, with her husband Roy Carey Chandler (1916).

Became a grandmother for the 2nd time at age 62 when her daughter Phyllis gave birth to a daughter, Christine Helene Baxley, on May 6, 1949.

Appears in two Oscar Best Picture winners: Meuterei auf der Bounty (1935) and Lebenskünstler (1938), and four other nominees: Vier Schwestern (1933), Zeit der Liebe, Zeit des Abschieds (1936), Jezebel - die boshafte Lady (1938) and Ein himmlischer Sünder (1943).

Daughter of Edwin Lee (1852-1891) and Helene Maud (née Cleghorn) Byington (1862-1907).

Name checked in The Trouble with Trillions (1998), when Mr Burns says to Homer: "Well, of course, I didn't want a racehorse in my living room. But you don't say no to Spring Byington, do you?".