
Marion Byron
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).
Filmografi
Working Girls1931 · Ellen (uncredited)
Swellhead1935 · Bessie
Love Me Tonight1932 · Bakery Girl (uncredited)
Trouble in Paradise1932 · Maid (uncredited)
College Humor1933 · Student
Steamboat Bill, Jr.1928 · Kitty King
Susie's Affairs1934 · Virginia
Children of Dreams1931 · Gertie
The Matrimonial Bed1930 · Marrieanne
Girls Demand Excitement1931 · Margery
The Boy Friend1928 · Marion Davidson
Only Yesterday1933 · Grace (Uncredited)
The Crime of the Century1933 · Bridge Player (uncredited)
The Show of Shows1929 · Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
They Call It Sin1932 · Soda Jerk (uncredited)
The Unkissed Man1929 ·
A Pair of Tights1929 · Marion
Playing Around1930 · Maude
Breed of the Border1933 · Sonia
Meet the Baron1933 · College Girl (uncredited)
Gift of Gab1934 · Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)
It Happened One Day1934 · Girl on Train
The Forward Pass1929 · Mazie
Song of the West1930 · Penny
Charles Ruggles
Tyler Brooke
Robert Greig
C. Aubrey Smith
Rolfe Sedan
Florence Wix
Myrna Loy
Hector V. Sarno
Bert Roach
Paul Lukas
Mary Forbes
Barbara Kent