1911-03-16 ( 114 years old ) in 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).
Movies
Swellhead
1935-05-04
Gift of Gab
1934-09-01
It Happened One Day
1934-07-07
Susie's Affairs
1934-06-01
Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
College Humor
1933-07-05
Breed of the Border
1933-03-01
The Crime of the Century
1933-02-18
The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933-02-04
They Call It Sin
1932-11-05
Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30
Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18
The Tenderfoot
1932-05-23
The Heart of New York
1932-03-26
Running Hollywood
1932-01-27
Working Girls
1931-12-12
Children of Dreams
1931-06-25
Girls Demand Excitement
1931-02-08
The Bad Man
1930-09-11
The Matrimonial Bed
1930-08-01
Golden Dawn
1930-06-14
Song of the West
1930-03-15
Playing Around
1930-01-10
Show of Shows
1929-11-21
The Forward Pass
1929-11-10
So Long Letty
1929-10-16
Broadway Babies
1929-06-30
The Unkissed Man
1929-04-27
A Pair of Tights
1929-02-03
His Captive Woman
1929-02-03
Going Ga-Ga
1929-01-05
Feed 'em and Weep
1928-12-08
The Boy Friend
1928-11-10
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928-05-09
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