Marion Byron

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).

  • Title: Marion Byron
  • Popularity: 0.2767
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-03-16
  • Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
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  • Also Known As: Marion Bryon , Marian Byron, Marion 'Peanuts' Byron, Miriam Byron, Miriam Bilenkin
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  • 1928
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    Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    7.598 1928 HD

    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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  • 1932
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    Love Me Tonight

    Love Me Tonight

    6.541 1932 HD

    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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  • 1929
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    The Unkissed Man

    The Unkissed Man

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1935
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    Swellhead

    Swellhead

    1 1935 HD

    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 turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.

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  • 1932
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    The Heart of New York

    The Heart of New York

    6.7 1932 HD

    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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  • 1929
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    Broadway Babies

    Broadway Babies

    5.2 1929 HD

    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 star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.

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  • 1933
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    The Crime of the Century

    The Crime of the Century

    6.3 1933 HD

    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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  • 1932
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    Running Hollywood

    Running Hollywood

    1 1932 HD

    Running Hollywood is a comedy short.

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  • 1930
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    The Matrimonial Bed

    The Matrimonial Bed

    5.7 1930 HD

    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 remarried and with children.

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  • 1930
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    Golden Dawn

    Golden Dawn

    4.7 1930 HD

    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, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.

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  • 1930
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    Playing Around

    Playing Around

    4.286 1930 HD

    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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  • 1930
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    Song of the West

    Song of the West

    1 1930 HD

    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 escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.

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  • 1929
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    Going Ga-Ga

    Going Ga-Ga

    6.8 1929 HD

    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 into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.

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  • 1929
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    A Pair of Tights

    A Pair of Tights

    7.6 1929 HD

    Two girls are invited by one of the girls boyfriend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to the car where the rest is waiting.

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  • 1929
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    His Captive Woman

    His Captive Woman

    6 1929 HD

    Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.

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  • 1929
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    So Long Letty

    So Long Letty

    5.889 1929 HD

    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 a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.

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  • 1928
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    The Boy Friend

    The Boy Friend

    5.3 1928 HD

    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, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.

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  • 1933
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    College Humor

    College Humor

    5.3 1933 HD

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

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  • 1932
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    The Tenderfoot

    The Tenderfoot

    6 1932 HD

    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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  • 1928
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    Feed 'em and Weep

    Feed 'em and Weep

    5.6 1928 HD

    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 passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately. This film only survived in parts.

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  • 1932
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    Trouble in Paradise

    Trouble in Paradise

    7.399 1932 HD

    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 position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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  • 1933
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    Meet the Baron

    Meet the Baron

    4.2 1933 HD

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

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  • 1931
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    Children of Dreams

    Children of Dreams

    1 1931 HD

    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 plan a double wedding.

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  • 1930
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    The Bad Man

    The Bad Man

    1 1930 HD

    Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.

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  • 1931
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    Girls Demand Excitement

    Girls Demand Excitement

    1 1931 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    Gift of Gab

    Gift of Gab

    1 1934 HD

    Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

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  • 1929
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    The Show of Shows

    The Show of Shows

    5.5 1929 HD

    Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!

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  • 1932
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    They Call It Sin

    They Call It Sin

    5.8 1932 HD

    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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  • 1933
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    Breed of the Border

    Breed of the Border

    1 1933 HD

    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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  • 1931
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    Working Girls

    Working Girls

    6.8 1931 HD

    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, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

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  • 1934
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    Susie's Affairs

    Susie's Affairs

    5 1934 HD

    Susie and her pals pretend they're society swells.

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  • 1933
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    The Curse of a Broken Heart

    The Curse of a Broken Heart

    1 1933 HD

    Columbia Pictures short.

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  • 1933
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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    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 War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

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  • 1929
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    The Forward Pass

    The Forward Pass

    1 1929 HD

    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, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.

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  • 1934
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    It Happened One Day

    It Happened One Day

    1 1934 HD

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

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  • 1932
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    The Hollywood Handicap

    The Hollywood Handicap

    1 1932 HD

    1930s Thalians Club comedy.

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  • 1928
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    Plastered in Paris

    Plastered in Paris

    1 1928 HD

    A Harem Scarum Comedy of two Clowns in a Desert Amidst a Bevy of Harem Beauties. It's a Wow and How!

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