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