Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Spring Byington was an American actress, best remembered for her seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. Earlier, she was a key MGM contract player.She was born Spring Dell Byington in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had one younger sister, Helene Kimball Byington, born September 4, 1890, in Colorado. Their father was Professor Edwin Lee Byington (1852 1891), a well-respected educator and superintendent of schools in Colorado. When he died unexpectedly, his wife, Helene Maud Cleghorn Byington, decided to send her daughter (Helene) to live with her parents, Arthur and Charlotte Cleghorn, in Port Hope, Ontario. Spring remained with family in Denver. Helene Byington moved to Boston and became a student at the Boston University School of Medicine where she graduated in 1896. Upon graduation she moved back to Denver, Colorado, and began a practice with fellow graduate, Dr. Mary Ford.