Marion Byron

Born in March 16th, 1911

From Dayton, Ohio, USA

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).

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Marion Byron Movies

Swellhead Poster
May 4, 1935
Gift of Gab Poster
September 1, 1934
It Happened One Day Poster
July 7, 1934
Susies Affairs Poster
June 1, 1934
Only Yesterday Poster
November 1, 1933
Meet the Baron Poster
October 20, 1933
Breed of the Border Poster
March 1, 1933
The Crime of the Century Poster
February 18, 1933

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