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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).
Marion Byron Biography / Wiki
Name | Marion Byron |
Also Know | Marion Bryon , Marian Byron, Marion ‘Peanuts’ Byron, Miriam Byron |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
Date of Birth | 1911-03-16 |
Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
Deathday | 1985-07-05 |
Marion Byron Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Broadway Babies | Florine Chanler | 1929-06-28 | Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to … |
Feed ’em and Weep | 1928-12-08 | Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max’s diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the pas… | |
Going Ga-Ga | Marion | 1929-01-05 | Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break… |
A Pair of Tights | Marion | 1929-02-03 | Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend’s tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilat… |
Breed of the Border | Sonia | 1933-03-01 | Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent’s old friend Chuc… |
The Curse of a Broken Heart | Little Ivy | 1933-02-04 | Columbia Pictures short…. |
The Boy Friend | Marion Davidson | 1928-11-10 | The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, t… |
Susie’s Affairs | Virginia | 1934-06-01 | Susie (Grable) and her pals pretend they’re society swells…. |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. | J.J. King’s Daughter Kitty | 1928-05-09 | The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was little…. |
The Forward Pass | Mazie | 1929-01-02 | Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith… |
Playing Around | Maude | 1930-01-19 | New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go…. |
The Unkissed Man | 1929-04-27 | Plot unknown…. | |
Swellhead | Bessie | 1935-05-04 | Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn’t mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-f… |
Song of the West | Penny | 1930-03-15 | Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escor… |
So Long Letty | Ruth Davis | 1929-10-16 | Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets … |
The Bad Man | Angela Hardy | 1930-09-13 | Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit…. |
It Happened One Day | Girl on Train | 1934-07-07 | Charley meets his new boss–who has a lovely daughter…. |
Golden Dawn | Joanna | 1930-06-14 | Golden Dawn (1930) is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers, photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Walter Woolf King and Noah Be… |
His Captive Woman | 1929-02-03 | Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCar… | |
The Tenderfoot | Kitty | 1932-05-23 | Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman’s secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and p… |
The Matrimonial Bed | Marrieanne | 1930-08-01 | Five years after Adolphe’s death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarrie… |
The Heart of New York | Mimi | 1932-03-26 | A poor New York plumber’s wife and children hope to move “uptown” from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention…. |
They Call It Sin | Soda Jerk (uncredited) | 1932-11-05 | An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a cr… |
Girls Demand Excitement | Margery | 1931-02-08 | Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled sociali… |
Meet the Baron | College Girl (uncredited) | 1933-10-20 | A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls’ school…. |
Working Girls | Ellen | 1931-12-12 | Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in … |
Love Me Tonight | Bakery Girl (uncredited) | 1932-08-18 | A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young pri… |
Gift of Gab | Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron) | 1934-09-01 | Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station…. |
College Humor | Student | 1933-07-05 | A college professor and the school’s star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed…. |
Only Yesterday | Grace (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 | On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h… |
Show of Shows | Performer in ‘Meet My Sister’ Number | 1929-11-21 | It’s 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen … |
Running Hollywood | Marion Byron | 1932-01-27 | Running Hollywood is a comedy short…. |
Credit: TMDB
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