Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; 1911 – 1985)[1] was an American silent film actress and comedian.

[3] She made her first stage appearance at the age of 13 and followed it with a role in actor-producer Lupino Lane's Hollywood Music Box Revue opposite Fannie Brice.

While appearing in The Strawberry Blonde, she came to the attention of Buster Keaton who signed her as his leading lady in the film Steamboat Bill, Jr. in 1928 when she was just 16.

From there she was hired by Hal Roach[4] who teamed her with Anita Garvin in a bid to create a female version of Laurel and Hardy.

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 and Woolsey; she returned to the Hal Roach studio for a bit part in the Charley Chase short It Happened One Day (1934).