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Marion Byron
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Marion Byron
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1911-03-16, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Gender
Female
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

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

7.6

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928-05-09

Love Me Tonight

6.6

Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18

The Unkissed Man

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The Unkissed Man
1929-04-27

0

Swellhead
1935-05-04

The Heart of New York

6.7

The Heart of New York
1932-03-26

Broadway Babies

5.2

Broadway Babies
1929-06-30

The Crime of the Century

6.111

The Crime of the Century
1933-02-18

Running Hollywood

0

Running Hollywood
1932-01-27

The Matrimonial Bed

5.7

The Matrimonial Bed
1930-08-01

4.7

Golden Dawn
1930-06-14

4.7

Playing Around
1930-01-10

Song of the West

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Song of the West
1930-03-15

A Pair of Tights

7.3

A Pair of Tights
1929-02-03

6.6

Going Ga-Ga
1929-01-05

His Captive Woman

6

His Captive Woman
1929-02-03

5.9

So Long Letty
1929-10-16

5.3

The Boy Friend
1928-11-10

5.6

College Humor
1933-07-05

6

The Tenderfoot
1932-05-23

Feed 'em and Weep

5.2

Feed 'em and Weep
1928-12-08

Trouble in Paradise

7.4

Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30

4.3

Meet the Baron
1933-10-20

Children of Dreams

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Children of Dreams
1931-06-25

0

The Bad Man
1930-09-11

Girls Demand Excitement

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Girls Demand Excitement
1931-02-08

1

Gift of Gab
1934-09-01

5.5

Show of Shows
1929-11-21

They Call It Sin

5.8

They Call It Sin
1932-11-05

Breed of the Border

0

Breed of the Border
1933-03-01

6.2

Working Girls
1931-12-12

Susie's Affairs

5

Susie's Affairs
1934-06-01

The Curse of a Broken Heart

0

The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933-02-04

6.8

Only Yesterday
1933-11-01

The Forward Pass

0

The Forward Pass
1929-11-10

It Happened One Day

0

It Happened One Day
1934-07-07