Marion Byron
Marion Byron | |
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 Byron in 1929 | |
| Born | Miriam Bilenkin 1911 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | 1985 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California |
| Other names | Peanuts |
| Occupation |
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| Years active | 1928–1938 |
| Children | 2 |
Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; 1911 – 1985)[1] was an American movie comedian.
Early years
Born in Dayton, Ohio,[2] Byron was one of five daughters of Louis and Bertha Bilenkin.[3]
Career
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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[4] 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 5'9" Garvin for a brief three-film series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929.
She left the Roach studio before it made talking comedies, then worked 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 movies like Meet the Baron (1933), starring Jack Pearl and Hips Hips Hooray (1934) with Wheeler & Woolsey; she returned to the Hal Roach studio for a bit part in the Charley Chase short It Happened One Day (1934). Her final screen appearance was as a baby nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets in Five of a Kind (1938).
Family
Byron is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.[5]
Selected filmography
- Five of a Kind (1938)
- Swellhead (1935)
- Gift of Gab (1934)
- It Happened One Day (1934)
- Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1933)
- Only Yesterday (1933)
- Meet the Baron (1933)
- Husbands’ Reunion (1933)
- College Humor (1933)
- Melody Cruise (1933)
- Breed of the Border (1933)
- The Crime of the Century (1933)
- The Curse of a Broken Heart (1933)
- Lucky Devils (1933)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- They Call It Sin (1932)
- Love Me Tonight (1933)
- The Hollywood Handicap (1932)
- Week Ends Only (1932)
- The Tenderfoot (1932)
- The Heart of New York (1932)
- Running Hollywood (1932)
- Working Girls (1931)
- Children of Dreams (1931)
- Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
- The Bad Man (1930)
- The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
- Golden Dawn (1930)
- Song of the West (1930)
- Playing Around (1930)
- Show of Shows (1929)
- The Forward Pass (1929) - Mazie
- So Long Letty (1929)
- Social Sinners (1929)
- Broadway Babies (1929)
- The Unkissed Man (1929)
- His Captive Woman (1929)
- A Pair of Tights (1929)
- Going Ga–Ga (1929)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
- Feed’em and Weep (1928)
- The Boy Friend (1928)
- Plastered in Paris (1928)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
References
- ^ Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins,, fifth edition, by Adrian Richard West Room (born 1933), McFarland & Company (2010) OCLC 663110495
- ^ "'Peanuts' From Ohio". Detroit Free Press. December 3, 1929. p. 25. Retrieved April 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Louis Bilenkin, Former Resident, Dies in West". The Dayton Herald. Ohio, Dayton. April 9, 1937. p. 12. Retrieved April 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Beauties race for baby stardom". Los Angeles Record. November 13, 1919. p. 1. Retrieved April 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson
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