Marion Byron

Marion Byron
Born	Miriam Bilenkin March 16, 1911 Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Died	July 5, 1985 (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Park
Other names	Peanuts
Occupation	Film actress, comedian
Years active	1928–1938
Spouse(s)	Lou Breslow (1932–1985; her death); 2 sons

Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; March 16, 1911, Dayton, Ohio – July 5, 1985, Santa Monica, California)^[1] was an American movie comedian.

Career

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 5'9 Anita for a brief three-film series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929.

She left Roach Studios before it made sound films, 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. Her final screen appearance was as a baby nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets in Five of a Kind (1938).

Family

She married screenwriter Lou Breslow in 1932, and they had two sons, Lawrence Samuel Breslow (born 1939) and Daniel Robert Breslow (1944–1998). Marion Byron Breslow is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.

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

External links

• Marion Byron at IMDb
• Marion Byron at AllMovie
• Marion Byron at Find a Grave