Marion Byron
Acting • Born 1911-03-16 – Died 1985-07-05
Biography
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).
Filmography
37 credits
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Movie • 1928
Kitty King
Love Me Tonight
Movie • 1932
Bakery Girl (uncredited)
The Unkissed Man
Movie • 1929
Swellhead
Movie • 1935
Bessie
The Heart of New York
Movie • 1932
Mimi
Broadway Babies
Movie • 1929
Florine Chanler
The Crime of the Century
Movie • 1933
Bridge Player (uncredited)
Running Hollywood
Movie • 1932
Marion Byron
The Matrimonial Bed
Movie • 1930
Marrieanne
Golden Dawn
Movie • 1930
Joanna
Song of the West
Movie • 1930
Penny
Playing Around
Movie • 1930
Maude
A Pair of Tights
Movie • 1929
Marion
Going Ga-Ga
Movie • 1929
Marion
His Captive Woman
Movie • 1929
So Long Letty
Movie • 1929
Ruth Davis
The Boy Friend
Movie • 1928
Marion Davidson
College Humor
Movie • 1933
Student
The Tenderfoot
Movie • 1932
Kitty
Feed 'em and Weep
Movie • 1928
Trouble in Paradise
Movie • 1932
Maid (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Movie • 1933
College Girl (uncredited)
Children of Dreams
Movie • 1931
Gertie
The Bad Man
Movie • 1930
Angela Hardy
Girls Demand Excitement
Movie • 1931
Margery
Gift of Gab
Movie • 1934
Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
They Call It Sin
Movie • 1932
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Breed of the Border
Movie • 1933
Sonia
Working Girls
Movie • 1931
Ellen (uncredited)
Susie's Affairs
Movie • 1934
Virginia
The Curse of a Broken Heart
Movie • 1933
Little Ivy
Only Yesterday
Movie • 1933
Grace (Uncredited)
The Forward Pass
Movie • 1929
Mazie
It Happened One Day
Movie • 1934
Girl on Train
The Hollywood Handicap
Movie • 1932
Plastered in Paris
Movie • 1928
Mimi