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