Spring Byington

Spring Byington was an American actress known for You Can't Take It with You (1938, Academy Award nomination), Little Women (1933), and December Bride (CBS, 1954–1959), in which she starred as a widowed woman resisting pressure to remarry. She was in a long-term relationship with actress Marjorie Main — the two were inseparable for decades, worked together, and traveled together — and biographers have documented the relationship as romantic. Like all women of her era in Hollywood, she never publicly addressed her identity, but her story has become part of the documented history of lesbian life in golden-age Hollywood.