American actress Spring Byington, orphaned as a child, debuted onstage with a Denver stock company at age 14. She went on work in the theater with several touring companies, eventually debuting on Broadway in 1924. She made her feature film debut as Marmee in Little Women (1933) with Katherine Hepburn. Byington then went on to appear in more than 100 films, usually cast as forever-young, happy, warm, high-spirited, somewhat dizzy women. For her work in You Can't Take It With You (1938) she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She was a regular in the "Jones family" series of films (1936-40). She later starred in the TV series December Bride and was a regular in the TV series Laramie. Her last film was Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960).