Marion Byron

Known for ActingBorn 1911-03-16Died 1985-07-05 Dayton, Ohio, USA

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).Read more

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Swellhead

Girls Demand Excitement

Plastered in Paris

Running Hollywood

Song of the West

The Bad Man

The Forward Pass

It Happened One Day

His Captive Woman

A Pair of Tights

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

The Tenderfoot

Trouble in Paradise

Only Yesterday

Working Girls

Breed of the Border

The Hollywood Handicap

Children of Dreams

Going Ga-Ga

The Heart of New York

The Show of Shows

The Crime of the Century

Love Me Tonight

Susie's Affairs

The Matrimonial Bed

So Long Letty

Broadway Babies

They Call It Sin

Feed 'em and Weep

College Humor

The Boy Friend

Golden Dawn

Gift of Gab

Meet the Baron

Playing Around

The Curse of a Broken Heart

The Unkissed Man