American actress Marion Byron appeared in many early Hal Roach silent two-reel shorts. She was born in Dayton, Ohio and made her stage debut at the age of 13 in a Los Angeles production of Patsy.

She was a cute and vivacious soubrette who featured in early, long forgotten musicals, with titles like The Show of Shows (1929), Broadway Babies (1929) and Playing Around (1930). Marion began her performing career as a teenage showgirl in Los Angeles and got her first break in films as leading lady to Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928).
In the early 30’s, Marion’s regular screen assignments included the usual assortment of feisty maids, college girls, friends of the heroine, flappers and chorines, which were reserved for those deemed “second leads”. Though stardom eluded her, she was briefly popular in lightweight comedies, notable examples being the Michael Curtiz directed The Matrimonial Bed (1930) and Mervyn Le Roy’s quirky Jewish farce The Heart of New York (1932) (which sported comic duo Smith & Dale as eccentric matchmakers “Schnapps and Strudel”). Already by 1933, Marion's roles had diminished to uncredited bits and walk-ons. Her last film was as a nurse in Five of a Kind (1938), a biography of the Dionne Quintuplets, scripted by her husband the screenwriter Lou Breslow.

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