Marion Byron

Actor, Film actor

1911 – 1985

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Who was Marion Byron?

Marion "Peanuts" Byron was a petite, 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 Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief 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 with Alice White, and the early Technicolor feature, Golden Dawn. 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 starring Jack Pearl and Hips Hips Hooray with Wheeler & Woolsey. Her final screen appearance was as a baby nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets in their film, Six of a Kind.

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Born
Mar 16, 1911
Dayton
Also known as
  • Marion "Peanuts" Byron
  • Miriam Bilenkin
  • Miriam Byron
  • Marion Bryon
  • Marian Byron
  • Marion 'Peanuts' Byron
  • Peanuts
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Dayton
Died
Jul 5, 1985
Santa Monica

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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