Highest rated movie: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Lowest rated movie: Gift of Gab (1934)
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Looking for reviews of Marion Byron movies? Cinafilm has a total of 339 reviews across 10 movies.
Movies starring Marion Byron have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. - released in 1928 - is Marion Byron's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 143 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Marion Byron is Gift of Gab - released in 1934 - with a score of 49% based on 1 reviews.
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).
Marion Byron has acted in films with Robert Greig, Rolfe Sedan, Charles Ruggles and Elizabeth Patterson.
Marion Byron has worked with these film directors: Ray Enright, Buster Keaton, Ernst Lubitsch and Walter Lang.
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