Marion Byron
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).
Trouble in Paradise
as Maid (uncredited)Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume...
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
as J.J. King's Daughter KittyThe just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father...
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Love Me Tonight
as Bakery Girl (uncredited)A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an...
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The Heart of New York
as MimiA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side...
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Broadway Babies
as Florine ChanlerDee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are...
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Only Yesterday
as Grace (Uncredited)On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....
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The Crime of the Century
as uncreditedA doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder...
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The Tenderfoot
as KittyCalvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth...
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Swellhead
as BessieBaseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his...
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Working Girls
as EllenTwo sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister...
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Golden Dawn
as JoannaDawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman...
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The Bad Man
as Angela HardyFilm version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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Gift of Gab
as Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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The Boy Friend
as Marion DavidsonThe pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance...
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Playing Around
as MaudeNew York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich...
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Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' NumberNow hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see...
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So Long Letty
as Ruth DavisUncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his...
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College Humor
as StudentA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful...
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Breed of the Border
as SoniaJoe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots...
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Song of the West
as PennyCaptain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been...
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Meet the Baron
as College Girl (uncredited)A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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The Matrimonial Bed
as MarrieanneFive years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with...
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His Captive Woman
as uncreditedCabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht...
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Girls Demand Excitement
as MargeryPeter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college...
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The Forward Pass
as MazieMarty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition...
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They Call It Sin
as Soda Jerk (uncredited)An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted,...
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It Happened One Day
as Girl on TrainCharley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
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A Pair of Tights
as MarionTwo girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they...
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Susie's Affairs
as VirginiaSusie and her pals pretend they're society swells.
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Children of Dreams
as GertieOne day, Molly Standing is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her...
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