Marion Byron
Actor · 1911 – 1985 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
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).
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Movie6.6ComedyRomanceA Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Love Me Tonight
1932 · 94 votes
Movie7.1ComedyTwo 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.
Working Girls
1931 · 8 votes
Movie7.4ComedyCrimeThief 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.
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · 325 votes
Movie7.6ComedyRomanceThe 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.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · 409 votes
Movie6.6MusicNow 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!
The Show of Shows
1929 · 5 votes
Movie6.7CrimeMysteryDriven 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.
The Crime of the Century
1933 · 12 votes
Movie6.0DramaA 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.
They Call It Sin
1932 · 11 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceOn the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Only Yesterday
1933 · 7 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
The Heart of New York
1932 · 4 votes
Movie10.0ActionComedyBaseball 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.
Swellhead
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0WesternJoe 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.
Breed of the Border
1933 · 1 votes
Movie9.0MusicWesternCaptain 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.
Song of the West
1930 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ActionComedyA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
College Humor
1933 · 9 votes
Movie5.3ComedyA charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Meet the Baron
1933 · 6 votes
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Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Running Hollywood
1932 · 1 votes
Movie5.2MusicComedyConceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Gift of Gab
1934 · 4 votes
Movie6.4ComedyFive 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.
The Matrimonial Bed
1930 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyAnita 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.
Feed 'em and Weep
1928 · 6 votes
- MovieComedy
Columbia Pictures short.
The Curse of a Broken Heart
1933 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCharley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
It Happened One Day
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0ComedyMusic
1930s Thalians Club comedy.
The Hollywood Handicap
1932 · 1 votes
Movie7.8ComedyTwo girls are invited by one of the girls boyfriend'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 is waiting.
A Pair of Tights
1929 · 8 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaNew 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.
Playing Around
1930 · 8 votes
Movie7.0MusicOne 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.
Children of Dreams
1931 · 1 votes