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