Marion Byron

Acting Mar 16, 1911 Jul 5, 1985 (aged 74) Dayton, Ohio, USA

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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).

37 Acting Credits

Marion Byron

Acting

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Trouble in Paradise

Love Me Tonight

The Crime of the Century

So Long Letty

They Call It Sin

College Humor

Playing Around

A Pair of Tights

Going Ga-Ga

Working Girls

Broadway Babies

The Boy Friend

Feed 'em and Weep

Only Yesterday

The Matrimonial Bed

Meet the Baron

The Heart of New York

Golden Dawn

The Show of Shows

Gift of Gab

His Captive Woman

The Tenderfoot

Susie's Affairs