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Marion Byron

Marion Byron

Actor · Born 1911-03-16 · Dayton, Ohio, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; March 16, 1911, Dayton, Ohio – July 5, 1985, Santa Monica, California) was an American movie comedian. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film Steamboat Bill, Jr. in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (4'11" in high heels) Marion was teamed with the 6' Anita for a brief three-film series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929. She left Roach before they made talkies, but she went on working, now in musical features, like the Vitaphone film Broadway Babies (1929) with Alice White, and the early Technicolor feature, Golden Dawn (1930). Her parts slowly got smaller until they were unbilled walk-ons in films like Meet the Baron (1933), starring Jack Pearl and Hips Hips Hooray (1934) with Wheeler & Woolsey. Her final screen appearance was as a baby nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets in their film, Five of a Kind (1938).

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) — Kitty King
  2. Trouble in Paradise (1932) — Maid (uncredited)
  3. Love Me Tonight (1932) — Bakery Girl (uncredited)
  4. The Crime of the Century (1933) — Bridge Player (uncredited)
  5. So Long Letty (1929) — Ruth Davis
  6. They Call It Sin (1932) — Soda Jerk (uncredited)
  7. College Humor (1933) — Student
  8. Playing Around (1930) — Maude
  9. A Pair of Tights (1929) — Marion
  10. Working Girls (1931) — Ellen (uncredited)
  11. Going Ga-Ga (1929) — Marion
  12. Only Yesterday (1933) — Grace (Uncredited)
  13. Broadway Babies (1929) — Florine Chanler
  14. The Boy Friend (1928) — Marion Davidson
  15. Feed 'em and Weep (1928)
  16. Meet the Baron (1933) — College Girl (uncredited)
  17. The Matrimonial Bed (1930) — Marrieanne
  18. The Show of Shows (1929) — Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  19. The Heart of New York (1932) — Mimi
  20. Golden Dawn (1930) — Joanna
  21. Gift of Gab (1934) — Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)
  22. His Captive Woman (1929)
  23. The Tenderfoot (1932) — Kitty
  24. Susie's Affairs (1934) — Virginia
  25. Swellhead (1935) — Bessie
  26. Running Hollywood (1932) — Marion Byron
  27. Song of the West (1930) — Penny
  28. Children of Dreams (1931) — Gertie
  29. The Bad Man (1930) — Angela Hardy
  30. Girls Demand Excitement (1931) — Margery
  31. Breed of the Border (1933) — Sonia
  32. The Curse of a Broken Heart (1933) — Little Ivy
  33. The Forward Pass (1929) — Mazie
  34. It Happened One Day (1934) — Girl on Train
  35. The Hollywood Handicap (1932)
  36. Plastered in Paris (1928) — Mimi
  37. The Unkissed Man (1929)