Dell Byington Spring (October 17, 1886 - September 7, 1971) is an American actress. His career includes seven years running on radio and television as a December Bride star. He is a former MGM contract player who appeared in films from the 1930s through the 1960s. Byington received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Penelope Sycamore at You Can not Take It with You (1938).
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Byington was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, daughter of Edwin Lee Byington, a Colorado school educator and supervisor, and his wife Helene Maud (Cleghorn) Byington. She has 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 Byington moved to Boston and enrolled at Boston University School of Medicine, where she graduated in 1896. She then returned to Denver and opened a practice with her classmates, Dr. Mary Ford.
Byington performed occasionally in amateur performances as a student, graduating from North High in 1904. He soon became a professional actress with Elitch Garden Stock Company. When their mother died in 1907, Byington and Helene were legally adopted by her aunt, Margaret Eddy. Byington stated in a 1949 interview that he briefly tried newspaper reporting. However, because he was old enough, he decided to start his acting career in New York City, saying that he enjoyed it, and, "I can not do anything else very well."
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Careers
Stage
In 1908, Byington joined the treasury company that was touring Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between 1908 and 1916, the company featured American dramas, translated into Spanish and Portuguese in Argentina and Brazil.
Upon returning to New York, Byington divides his time between working in Manhattan and living with his daughters. Her daughters live with friends J. Allen and Lois Babcock, in the village of Leonardsville, New York, who take care of them while Byington works in the city. He began touring in 1919 with the production of Birds in Paradise, which brought Hawaiian culture to the mainland, and, in 1921, began working with Stuart Walker Company, where he played a role in Sir. Pim Passes By , The Rined Lady , and Rollo's Wild Oats , among others. This relationship gave him a role in his first Broadway show in 1924, George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly Beggar on Horseback who ran for six months. He renewed roles in March and April 1925, and continued on Broadway with an additional 18 productions in ten years from 1925 to 1935. These included roles in Kaufman and Moss Hart Once Rifa's Rachel Crothers > When Ladies Meet, and Dawn Powell Jig Saw .
Movies, radio and television
In his final years on Broadway, Byington began working on films. The first is a short film titled Papa's Slay Ride (1930), in which she plays the role of Mama, and the second, and better known, role is in Little Women (1933) as Marmee, with Katharine Hepburn as her daughter Jo. For MGM, he plays Midwestian mother Roger Byam (Franchot Tone) at Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). She became a household name during The Jones Family Movie series, and continued as a character actress in Hollywood for several years. Byington was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for You Can not Take It with You (1938), which was won by Fay Bainter for Jezebel (where Byington also has a role as antebellum community warden, Mrs. Kendrick).
During World War II, Byington worked on the radio, and decided to continue working in this medium, as his film career began to decline after the war. In 1952, he joined CBS Radio to become the lead role of Lily Ruskin's widow, in the December Wedding sitcom. In 1954, television company Desilu Productions produced a show pilot for the sitcom, which also starred Byington. The pilot succeeded, and the hit hit comedy aired in its first two seasons soon after I Love Lucy . December Bride broadcast 111 episodes until 1959.
Byington became a guest star just like him on sitcom CBS
From 1961 to 1963, Byington was chosen as a wise and thoughtful home manager, Daisy Cooper, in the Western NBC series of Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. At Laramie , Daisy serves as a replacement for grandmother Mike Williams, played by child actor Dennis Holmes.
After Laramie , Byington-star guest as Mrs Jolly at NBC comedy Dennis Weaver, Kentucky Jones , and as rich as J. Pauline Spaghetti in an episode Batman in 1966. The second role from the back before his death from cancer in 1967, as Larry Hagman's mother at NBC I Dream of Jeannie . Her last role was in 1968 as Mother of General at ABC The Flying Nun , starring Sally Field.
Personal life
Byington spoke Spanish, which he learned during the time spent with her husband in Buenos Aires; and he studied Brazilian Portuguese in his golden years. In July 1958, he told Hazel Johnson reporter that he had obtained a "small coffee plantation" in Brazil the previous month and was studying Portuguese. "Miss Byington explained that she first listened to the 'conditioning record' before she slept in. An hour later, her Portuguese language course automatically began to infiltrate her pillow with the help of a small speaker."
Byington was fascinated by novels of metaphysical and science fiction, including George Orwell's 1984 . He surprised his star co-star at the Bride of December with his knowledge of Earth satellites and constellations in the night sky, and read The Magazine of Fantasy & amp; Science Fiction .
In August 1955, Byington began taking flying lessons in Glendale, California, but the studio made it stop because of insurance issues.
In January 1957, he testified at the Sica brother's trial as a character witness on behalf of DaLonne Cooper, who was a friend and supervisor of the script for December bride.
Marriage and engagement
In 1909, Spring Byington married Roy Chandler, the manager of a theater troupe working in Buenos Aires. They remained there until 1916, when Spring returned to New York to give birth to his first daughter, Phyllis Helene. His second daughter, Lois Irene, was born in 1917. The couple divorced around 1920. Between that time and the mid-1930s, he devoted his time to developing his career.
In the late 1930s, Byington was once again engaged to get married, this time for an Argentine industrialist. After the engagement of several years and months before they were married, he died unexpectedly. After this, he chose to devote his life to his career and his family.
A number of Hollywood historians claim that Byington is a lesbian. Actress Marjorie Main's biographer Michelle Vogel has noted that Main and Byington are widely reported to have long-term relationships. When asked about Byington's sexual orientation, Main admitted: "That's right, he's not much use for men."
Death
On September 7, 1971, Byington died of cancer at his home in Hollywood Hills. At his request, his body was donated for medical research.
For his contribution to the film and television industry, Byington has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: a star movie on 6507 Hollywood Boulevard, and a television star at 6231 Hollywood Boulevard.
Broadway Credits
Partial filmography
Movies
Movie "The Jones Family"
Television
- The December bride (1954-1959) - Lily Ruskin
- The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (December 27, 1956) - Himself
- What is My Path? (December 27, 1957) (Episode # 386, Season 9 EP.9) Mystery Guest. Is one of only a few Mystery Guests who disguise his voice well enough to fool the panel.
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) - Alice Wagner, episode "The Man with Two Faces" Dennis the Menace (1961) - Playing herself on the episode of "Dennis' Birthday" aired on 02/19/1961.
- Laramie (1961-1963) - Daisy Cooper
- "The Train Do not Stop Till It Gets There", The Biggest Show on Earth (1964)
- Batman (1966) - J. Pauline Spaghetti, episode "The Catwoman Goeth" and "The Sandman Cometh"
- I Dream of Jeannie (1967) - Mother, episode "Meet My Lady's Mother"
- The Flying Nun (1968) - Mother General, episode "To Fly or Not to Fly"
Awards
Nominated
- 1933 Alexandrias: Best Supporting Actress, Little Woman
- Won by Mary Astor, World Change
- 1938 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress, You Can not Take It With You
- Won by Fay Bainter, Jezebel
- 1950 Golden Globes: Best Actress - Comedy or Musical, Louisa
- Won by Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
- 1957 Emmy: Best Actress - Drama or Comedy Series, Wedding December
- Won by Jane Wyatt, The Best Daddy
- 1958 Emmy: Best Actress - Drama or Comedy Series, Wedding December
- Won by Jane Wyatt, The Best Daddy
See also
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
References
Note
Bibliography
External links
- Spring Byington on IMDb
- Spring Byington in the TCM Movie Database
- Spring Byington on Broadway Internet Database
- Spring Byington at AllMovie
- Spring Byington in the Search of the Mausoleum
- Women Who Make Funny Television: Ten Stars from a 1950 Comedy Session
- passport photo of the young Byte 1915 passport
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