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