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Marion Byron is a Actor American born on 16 march 1911 at Dayton (USA)
Marion "Peanuts" Byron (pseudonym; née Miriam Bilenkin; 16 March 1911 in Dayton, Ohio – 5 July 1985 in Santa Monica, California) was a petite (4'11" in high heels), plucky American movie comedienne.
She was born in Dayton, Ohio. 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'll" in high heels) Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief 3-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). She never made a big splash, with her parts slowly getting smaller and 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, Six of a Kind (1938).
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Marion Byron
Birth name Miriam Bilenkin
Nationality USA
Birth 16 march 1911 at Dayton (USA)
Death 5 july 1985 (at 74 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 16 march 1911 at Dayton (USA)
Death 5 july 1985 (at 74 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
She was born in Dayton, Ohio. 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'll" in high heels) Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief 3-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). She never made a big splash, with her parts slowly getting smaller and 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, Six of a Kind (1938).
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Gift of Gab (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Alice White, Paul Lukas
Roles Telephone Girl (as Marian Byron)
Rating49%
The Crime of the Century (1933)
, 1h13Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Jean Hersholt, Wynne Gibson, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, Gordon Westcott, Robert Elliott
Roles Bridge Player (Uncredited)
Rating64%
A bank official, whom a doctor had earlier hypnotized to obtain money from the bank's vault, is found murdered.
Meet the Baron (1933)
, 1h8Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Bess Flowers
Roles College Girl (uncredited)
Rating55%
A couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) are abandoned in the jungles of Africa by Baron Munchausen. A rescue team mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take the two of them back to America where they receive a hero's welcome.
Only Yesterday (1933)
, 1h45Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Benita Hume, Reginald Denny
Roles Grace (Uncredited)
Rating72%
College Humor (1933)
, 1h20Directed by Frank Butler, Claude Binyon, Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Roles Student
Rating59%
Barney Shirrel (Oakie) starts his first semester at Mid West University and works his way up in the fraternity with the help of Tex Roust (Joe Sawyer) and Mondrake (Arlen), an alcoholic college football star. Barney is passionate about engineering and the law, and between his varied studies, football, and the fraternity, he neglects his girl friend Amber (Kornman). In the next term, Mondrake gives his class sweater to Barney's sister Barbara (Carlisle). His drinking problem intensifies, however, when he learns that Barbara is falling in love with Professor Danvers (Crosby), the singing drama teacher. When Mondrake fails to show up at an important football game against a rival university, Danvers finds him in jail. With the school's reputation at stake, Danvers has him released and takes him to the football field in time to play in the game.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
, 1h23Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Maid (uncredited)
Rating78%
In Venice, Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), a master thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a beautiful thief and pickpocket also pretending to be of the nobility, and the two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, and go to work for the famous perfume manufacturer Madame Mariette Colet (Kay Francis), with the intention of stealing a great sum of money from her safe, which Monescu, as her secretary, arranges to be diverted there. In the course of things, Colet begins to flirt with Monescu, and he begins to have feelings for her.
Love Me Tonight (1932)
, 1h44Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Bakery Girl (uncredited)
Rating74%
The story describes an encounter between a Parisian tailor named Maurice Courtelin (Chevalier) and a family of local aristocrats. These include Vicomte Gilbert de Varèze (Ruggles), who owes Maurice a large amount of money for tailoring work; Gilbert's uncle the Duc d'Artelines (C. Aubrey Smith), the family patriarch; d'Artelines' man-hungry niece Valentine (Loy); and his other 22-year-old niece, Princesse Jeanette (MacDonald), who has been a widow for three years. D'Artelines has been unable to find Jeanette a new husband of suitable age and rank. The household also includes three aunts and an ineffectual suitor the Comte de Savignac (Butterworth).
The Heart of New York (1932)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ruth Hall, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook, Oscar Apfel, Marion Byron, Ann Brody
Roles Mimi
Rating60%
The Tenderfoot (1932)
, 1h10Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody, Vivien Oakland, Robert Greig, Ralph Ince
Roles Kitty
Rating58%
They Call It Sin (1932)
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel, David Manners, Helen Vinson, Louis Calhern
Roles Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Rating62%
Small-town church organist Marion Cullen (Young) falls in love with traveling salesman Jimmy Decker. When she learns that the couple who raised her are not really her parents, and that she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a showgirl, she sets out for New York City in search of Jimmy. However, she discovers that he is engaged to Enid Hollister, his boss's daughter. Dr. Travers, who is in love with Marion, offers to help her out, but she decides to try to make it on her own.
Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
, 1h9Directed by Seymour Felix
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Marion Byron, Helen Jerome Eddy, Winter Hall
Roles Margery
Rating60%
Peter Brooks est à la tête d'un groupe d'étudiants qui lutte contre la présence d'étudiantes à l'université. Il va se trouver opposé à Joan Madison à ce sujet, mais ils finiront par tomber amoureux...
Children of Dreams (1931)
, 1h18Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Marion Byron, Charles Winninger
Roles Gertie
Rating20%
One day, Molly Standing (Margaret Schilling) is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her friend Gertie (Marion Byron), when they meet two boys, Tommy Melville (Paul Gregory) and Gus Schultz (Tom Patricola). Molly falls in love with Tommy while Gertie falls in love with Gus. They plan a double wedding.
Working Girls (1931)
, 1h17Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Buddy Rogers, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, Mary Forbes, Claire Dodd
Roles Ellen
Rating63%
Two sisters from Indiana, Mae and June Thorpe, move into a house for homeless girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator. June begins dating Pat Kelly, a saxophone player who lavishes her with gifts. Mae begins to date Boyd Wheeler, a successful lawyer. Mae turns down a marriage proposal from von Schraeder, and von Shraeder asks that she then quit her job so he will not be hurt by having her around. Mae compromises her virtue with Boyd by staying alone with him one night in his apartment. She suffers for her choice when he goes out of town for a month and returns engaged to a socialite.
The Bad Man (1930)
, 1h17Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Walter Huston, Dorothy Revier, Erville Alderson, James Rennie, O. P. Heggie, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Angela Hardy
Rating60%
Walter Huston plays the part of a notorious Mexican bandit. James Rennie plays as the man who once saved his life. When Rennie is unable to pay the mortgage on his ranch and is in risk of losing everything, Huston determines to help him. Sidney Blackmer, who has reason to believe that there is oil on Rennie's property, attempts to swindle Rennie and buy the property from him for a low price. Huston soon discovers that Rennie is in love with Blackmer's wife, played by Dorothy Revier, and consequently has Blackmer shot so that they can pursue their romance. Huston then robs a bank and uses the money to pay off Rennie's mortgage. Having the ranch securely in his hands, Rennie is now free to marry Revier. As Huston says goodbye to the couple, he is overtaken by the Texas Rangers and shot.
Golden Dawn (1930)
, 1h23Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Walter Woolf King, Noah Beery Sr., Lupino Lane, Marion Byron, Edward Martindel, Nina Quartero
Roles Joanna
Rating46%
The story takes place in colonial Africa, where Vivienne Segal (as Dawn), plays the part of a white girl who was kidnapped in infancy and is being brought up by a black native, played by Alice Gentle, as her own. Alice Gentle runs a canteen in the now German colonial settlement. Segal falls in love with Walter Woolf King, a British rubber planter who is now a prisoner of war. Noah Beery, who is the native black leader of the tribes in that region, is also in love with Segal and becomes extremely jealous when he heard of Segal's love for King. King, however, is sent back to Britain by the Germans for attempting to steal Segal, whom they believe is half black. Eventually, the British regain control of the territory and drive out the Germans. King returns to the colony. When the settlement experiences a drought, Beery attempts to incite the natives against Segal, claiming that their native God is angry because Segal has dared to love a white man. King is unable to save Segal because the colonial authorities refuse to act unless they have proof that Segal is one hundred percent white. Eventually Gentle confesses that she is not Segal's real mother and that her real (white) father confirms what she confessed is true and that her mother was white. King quickly brings the British troops just as the natives are about to sacrifice Segal. During the ceremony however, one of the virgin priestesses of the native God, revels that Beery has been lying about Segal. The God is not interested in Segal since she is pure white. Furthermore she reveals that Beery had violated her chastity and claims that their native God was angry because of this sacrilegious act. Beery is sacrificed to the anger of the natives and the drought quickly ends as rain pours down. In the end, Segal and King, happily reunited, sail back to England together.