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Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; March 16, 1911, Dayton, Ohio β 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 1928β1929.
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
all 37
Movies 37
self 1
Swellhead (1935)
Gift of Gab (1934)
It Happened One Day (1934)
Susie's Affairs (1934)
Only Yesterday (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Husbands' Reunion (1933)
College Humor (1933)
Breed of the Border (1933)
The Crime of the Century (1933)
The Curse of a Broken Heart (1933)
They Call It Sin (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
The Tenderfoot (1932)
The Heart of New York (1932)
Running Hollywood (1932)
Working Girls (1931)
Children of Dreams (1931)
Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
The Bad Man (1930)
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Golden Dawn (1930)
Song of the West (1930)
Playing Around (1930)
Show of Shows (1929)
The Forward Pass (1929)
So Long Letty (1929)
Broadway Babies (1929)
The Unkissed Man (1929)
A Pair of Tights (1929)
His Captive Woman (1929)
Going Ga-Ga (1929)
Feed 'em and Weep (1928)
The Boy Friend (1928)
Is Everybody Happy? (1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1911-03-16
Deathday1985-07-05 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceDayton, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsMarion Bryon , Marian Byron, Marion 'Peanuts' Byron, Miriam Byron, Miriam Bilenkin
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