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