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).
Movie | Swellhead | Bessie | 1935-05-04 |
Movie | Susie's Affairs | Virginia | 1934-06-01 |
Movie | It Happened One Day | Girl on Train | 1934-07-07 |
Movie | Gift of Gab | Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron) | 1934-09-01 |
Movie | The Curse of a Broken Heart | Little Ivy | 1933-02-04 |
Movie | Breed of the Border | Sonia | 1933-03-01 |
Movie | The Crime of the Century | 1933-02-18 | |
Movie | College Humor | Student | 1933-07-05 |
Movie | Meet the Baron | College Girl (uncredited) | 1933-10-20 |
Movie | Only Yesterday | Grace (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 |
Movie | The Heart of New York | Mimi | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Running Hollywood | Marion Byron | 1932-01-27 |
Movie | The Tenderfoot | Kitty | 1932-05-23 |
Movie | Trouble in Paradise | Maid (uncredited) | 1932-10-30 |
Movie | Love Me Tonight | Bakery Girl (uncredited) | 1932-08-18 |
Movie | They Call It Sin | Soda Jerk (uncredited) | 1932-11-05 |
Movie | Girls Demand Excitement | Margery | 1931-02-08 |
Movie | Working Girls | Ellen | 1931-12-12 |
Movie | Children of Dreams | Gertie | 1931-06-25 |
Movie | Playing Around | Maude | 1930-01-10 |
Movie | Golden Dawn | Joanna | 1930-06-14 |
Movie | Song of the West | Penny | 1930-03-15 |
Movie | The Bad Man | Angela Hardy | 1930-09-11 |
Movie | The Matrimonial Bed | Marrieanne | 1930-08-01 |
Movie | A Pair of Tights | Marion | 1929-02-03 |
Movie | Going Ga-Ga | Marion | 1929-01-05 |
Movie | His Captive Woman | 1929-02-03 | |
Movie | The Forward Pass | Mazie | 1929-11-10 |
Movie | Broadway Babies | Florine Chanler | 1929-06-30 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | So Long Letty | Ruth Davis | 1929-10-16 |
Movie | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Kitty King | 1928-05-09 |
Movie | Feed 'em and Weep | 1928-12-08 | |
Movie | The Boy Friend | Marion Davidson | 1928-11-10 |