Marion Byron
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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).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.378 |
Birthday | 1911-03-16 |
Place of Birth | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | Marion Bryon , Marian Byron, Marion 'Peanuts' Byron, Miriam Byron, Miriam Bilenkin, |
1928
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
7.6/324
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1932
The Heart of New York
6.7/3
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
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The Heart of New York
1929
Broadway Babies
5.25/4
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to...
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Broadway Babies
1930
Song of the West
0/0
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escor...
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Song of the West
1930
Playing Around
4.7/6
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
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Playing Around
1928
Feed 'em and Weep
5.2/4
Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the pas...
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Feed 'em and Weep
1930
The Matrimonial Bed
5.7/3
Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarrie...
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The Matrimonial Bed
1930
Golden Dawn
4.7/3
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meet...
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Golden Dawn
1929
Going Ga-Ga
6.6/5
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break...
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Going Ga-Ga
1929
A Pair of Tights
7.3/6
Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilat...
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A Pair of Tights
1929
So Long Letty
5.9/7
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets...
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So Long Letty
1929
His Captive Woman
6/1
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCar...
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His Captive Woman
1928
The Boy Friend
5.3/5
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, t...
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The Boy Friend
1933
College Humor
5.6/6
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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College Humor
1932
The Tenderfoot
6/1
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and p...
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The Tenderfoot
1933
Meet the Baron
4.3/3
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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Meet the Baron
1930
The Bad Man
0/0
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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The Bad Man
1931
Girls Demand Excitement
0/0
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled sociali...
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Girls Demand Excitement
1934
Gift of Gab
1/1
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Gift of Gab
1929
Show of Shows
5.5/2
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Show of Shows
1932
They Call It Sin
5.8/10
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a c...
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They Call It Sin
1933
Breed of the Border
0/0
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent's old friend Chuc...
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Breed of the Border
1931
Working Girls
6.2/5
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in N...
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Working Girls
1934
Susie's Affairs
5/1
Susie and her pals pretend they're society swells.
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Susie's Affairs
1933
The Curse of a Broken Heart
0/0
Columbia Pictures short.
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The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933
Only Yesterday
6.8/5
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h...
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Only Yesterday
1929
The Forward Pass
0/0
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith...
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The Forward Pass
1934
It Happened One Day
0/0
Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
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It Happened One Day
1932
Love Me Tonight
6.6/74
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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Love Me Tonight
1929
The Unkissed Man
0/0
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The Unkissed Man
1935
Swellhead
0/0
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-f...
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Swellhead
1932
Running Hollywood
0/0
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Running Hollywood
1932
Trouble in Paradise
7.4/271
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide t...
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Trouble in Paradise
1933
The Crime of the Century
5.714/7
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bo...
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The Crime of the Century
1931
Children of Dreams
0/0
One day, Molly Standing is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her friend Gertie (Marion Byron), when they meet two boys,...
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