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Feed 'em and Weep
1928
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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).
Gender
Female
Birthday
March 16, 1911
Died
July 5, 1985
Birthplace
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
The Heart of New York
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The Crime of the Century
1933
Feed 'em and Weep
1928
Broadway Babies
1929
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928
The Tenderfoot
1932
Working Girls
1931
Trouble in Paradise
1932
The Show of Shows
1929
The Bad Man
1930
Running Hollywood
1932
Swellhead
1935
The Forward Pass
1929
Plastered in Paris
1928
Meet the Baron
1933
It Happened One Day
1934
His Captive Woman
1929
The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933
College Humor
1933
Going Ga-Ga
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