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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 16, 1911
Place of Birth:
Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Marion Byron
Biography
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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).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Swellhead | Bessie |
| 1934 | Gift of Gab | Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron) |
| 1934 | Susie's Affairs | Virginia |
| 1934 | It Happened One Day | Girl on Train |
| 1933 | The Crime of the Century | Bridge Player (uncredited) |
| 1933 | College Humor | Student |
| 1933 | Meet the Baron | College Girl (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Breed of the Border | Sonia |
| 1933 | The Curse of a Broken Heart | Little Ivy |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | Grace (Uncredited) |
| 1932 | Love Me Tonight | Bakery Girl (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Heart of New York | Mimi |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Marion Byron |
| 1932 | The Tenderfoot | Kitty |
| 1932 | Trouble in Paradise | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1932 | They Call It Sin | Soda Jerk (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Hollywood Handicap | |
| 1931 | Children of Dreams | Gertie |
| 1931 | Girls Demand Excitement | Margery |
| 1931 | Working Girls | Ellen (uncredited) |
| 1930 | The Matrimonial Bed | Marrieanne |
| 1930 | Golden Dawn | Joanna |
| 1930 | Playing Around | Maude |
| 1930 | Song of the West | Penny |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Angela Hardy |
| 1929 | The Unkissed Man | |
| 1929 | Broadway Babies | Florine Chanler |
| 1929 | A Pair of Tights | Marion |
| 1929 | Going Ga-Ga | Marion |
| 1929 | His Captive Woman | |
| 1929 | So Long Letty | Ruth Davis |
| 1929 | Show of Shows | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number |
| 1929 | The Forward Pass | Mazie |
| 1928 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Kitty King |
| 1928 | The Boy Friend | Marion Davidson |
| 1928 | Feed 'em and Weep | |
| 1928 | Plastered in Paris | Mimi |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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