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Marion Byron

Acting Born Mar 16, 1911 Dayton, Ohio, USA 24 credits

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).

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Known for

Film

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

as Kitty King
Film

Trouble in Paradise

as Maid (uncredited)

Full filmography

  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) as Kitty King
  • Trouble in Paradise (1932) as Maid (uncredited)
  • Love Me Tonight (1932) as Bakery Girl (uncredited)
  • College Humor (1933) as Student
  • The Show of Shows (1929) as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • They Call It Sin (1932) as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
  • The Crime of the Century (1933) as Bridge Player (uncredited)
  • Swellhead (1935) as Bessie
  • Only Yesterday (1933) as Grace (Uncredited)
  • Golden Dawn (1930) as Joanna
  • Working Girls (1931) as Ellen (uncredited)
  • Gift of Gab (1934) as Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)
  • Running Hollywood (1932) as Marion Byron
  • Broadway Babies (1929) as Florine Chanler
  • The Tenderfoot (1932) as Kitty
  • Song of the West (1930) as Penny
  • The Matrimonial Bed (1930) as Marrieanne
  • The Heart of New York (1932) as Mimi
  • Feed 'em and Weep (1928)
  • The Boy Friend (1928) as Marion Davidson
  • Breed of the Border (1933) as Sonia
  • Girls Demand Excitement (1931) as Margery
  • A Pair of Tights (1929) as Marion
  • Playing Around (1930) as Maude