Marion Byron
Actor
Biography
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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).
Filmography
Trouble in Paradise
as Maid (uncredited) 1932
Love Me Tonight
as Bakery Girl (uncredited) 1932
The Crime of the Century
as Bridge Player (uncredited) 1933
So Long Letty
as Ruth Davis 1929
They Call It Sin
as Soda Jerk (uncredited) 1932
College Humor
as Student 1933
Playing Around
as Maude 1930
A Pair of Tights
as Marion 1929
Going Ga-Ga
as Marion 1929
Working Girls
as Ellen (uncredited) 1931
The Boy Friend
as Marion Davidson 1928
Feed 'em and Weep
1928
Only Yesterday
as Grace (Uncredited) 1933
Broadway Babies
as Florine Chanler 1929
The Matrimonial Bed
as Marrieanne 1930
Meet the Baron
as College Girl (uncredited) 1933