Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1911-03-16
Day of Death
1985-07-05
Place of Birth
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).
Filmography (37)
Swellhead
1935
Gift of Gab
1934
It Happened One Day
1934
Susie's Affairs
1934
Only Yesterday
1933
Meet the Baron
1933
College Humor
1933
Breed of the Border
1933
The Crime of the Century
1933The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933
They Call It Sin
1932
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Love Me Tonight
1932The Hollywood Handicap
1932
