Marion Byron
Also Known As: Marion Bryon , Marian Byron, Marion 'Peanuts' Byron, Miriam Byron, Miriam Bilenkin
Biography: 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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 16, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 05, 1985
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-09
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Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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The Unkissed Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-27
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Swellhead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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The Heart of New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Broadway Babies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-30
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The Crime of the Century
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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The Matrimonial Bed
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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Golden Dawn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Playing Around
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-10
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Song of the West
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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A Pair of Tights
Overview: Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend'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 are waiting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Going Ga-Ga
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-05
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His Captive Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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So Long Letty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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The Boy Friend
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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The Tenderfoot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-23
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Feed 'em and Weep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-08
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Trouble in Paradise
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-30
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Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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Children of Dreams
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-25
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The Bad Man
Overview: Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-11
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Girls Demand Excitement
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-08
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Gift of Gab
Overview: Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Show of Shows
Overview: 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!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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They Call It Sin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Breed of the Border
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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Working Girls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Susie's Affairs
Overview: Susie and her pals pretend they're society swells.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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The Curse of a Broken Heart
Overview: Columbia Pictures short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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The Forward Pass
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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It Happened One Day
Overview: Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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