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