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Marion Byron

Marion Byron

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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Movies Starring Marion Byron (19)

Swellhead (1935)

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-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turnin ...

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Gift of Gab (1934)

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station. ...

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It Happened One Day (1934)

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter. ...

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Susie's Affairs (1934)

Susie and her pals pretend they're society swells. ...

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Only Yesterday (1933)

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World ...

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Meet the Baron (1933)

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school. ...

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College Humor (1933)

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed. ...

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Breed of the Border (1933)

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 Chuck arrives and the two head out to find the gang and recover the bonds. ...

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The Crime of the Century (1933)

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it. ...

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They Call It Sin (1932)

A young, innocent 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 crush to the big city and is left fending for herself. ...

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Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his ...

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Love Me Tonight (1932)

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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The Tenderfoot (1932)

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 pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in. ...

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The Heart of New York (1932)

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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Running Hollywood (1932)

Running Hollywood is a comedy short. ...

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Working Girls (1931)

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 New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, whi ...

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Children of Dreams (1931)

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, Tommy Melville and Gus Schultz. Molly falls in love with Tommy while Gertie falls in love with Gus. They ...

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Girls Demand Excitement (1931)

Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison. ...

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