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From Wikipedia
Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American
actor and a studio executive at 20th Century Fox.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a
successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted
attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth (1923), and steadily
developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the
leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson,
Colleen Moore, Barbara La Marr, Viola Dana, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Astor and
Blanche Sweet.
He had success as an actor in the 1930 film Hell's Angels.
The film was a major success and brought Jean Harlow to prominence, but Lyon's
performance as an heroic World War I aviator was also highly regarded. For the
next decade he was constantly in demand, but his popularity began to wane by
the early 1940s. By the mid-1940s he was working for 20th Century Fox. On July
17, 1946 he met a young aspiring actress named Norma Jeane Dougherty.[2] After
his first meeting with her he stated that she was "Jean Harlow all over
again!". He organized a color screen test for the actress, renamed her,
and finally signed her as Marilyn Monroe to her first studio contract.
During World War II, Lyons and his wife, actress Bebe
Daniels, settled in London. The couple, along with the comedian Vic Oliver,
starred in the radio series Hi, Gang!, which ran from 1940 to 1949. Hi Gang was
succeeded in 1950 by Life with the Lyons, which also featured their real life
son Richard and daughter Barbara, and had a run on BBC and independent television
from 1954 until 1960.
Lyon married actress Bebe Daniels in June 1930. They had two
children: daughter Barbara in 1932 and a son Richard whom they adopted. Daniels
suffered a severe stroke in 1963 and withdrew from public life. She suffered a
second stroke in late 1970. She died at the couple's London home in March 1971.
In 1974, Lyon married the actress Marian Nixon whom he had
known since the 1920s.
On March 22, 1979, Lyon and his second wife Marian Nixon
were vacationing together on the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship near Honolulu,
Hawaii, when Lyon suffered a fatal heart attack. He is interred in the Chapel
Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to his first wife, Bebe.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ben
Lyon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street.
Most Popular Ben Lyon Trailers
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15 November 1930
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
16 July 1931
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
19 February 1932
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
28 March 1931
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
18 October 1943
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
19 May 1933
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
30 October 1930
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
04 April 1931
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
04 March 1933
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
11 February 1955
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons.
24 May 1919
A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.
03 May 1931
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
13 January 1926
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache.
22 August 1931
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
12 October 1934
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force.
25 September 1932
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
15 August 1925
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
11 May 1924
When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
20 January 1936
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P.
21 March 1942
British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
19 June 1932
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties.
07 December 1934
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
15 September 1924
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all.
20 October 1932
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
10 March 1932
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
25 August 1932
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin.
19 November 1931
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie.
26 August 1934
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
16 August 1935
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
30 May 1936
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
10 September 1923
The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.
18 October 1925
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him.
18 July 1926
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
13 January 1930
Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst.
26 July 1926
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, of which he is a member.
15 December 1931
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner.
08 October 1932
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins.
25 March 1938
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money.
12 July 1930
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
25 April 1931
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
01 December 1939
Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father.
01 April 1929
Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
20 April 1930
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker.
10 November 1924
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
17 May 1925
Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
31 July 1927
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film.
25 May 1954
Based on their hit radio show, Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon starred in this British "Ozzie and Harriet" type show about "Life with the Lyons" with their two children, Barbara and Richard.
06 May 1939
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton.
05 June 1929
Released in both a silent and a sound version: Mitch Moran, a veteran WWI pilot and now a commercial pilot, takes his young irresponsible brother, Steve, under his guidance.
17 October 1926
Francis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, after being raised in a monastery following his parents death assumes his title but falls victim to a pair of schemers leading to much heartache before all is set aright before the fadeout.
02 March 1929
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
25 August 1927
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
01 January 1923
Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape.
26 April 1931
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
08 December 1933
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
27 December 1941
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver.
16 April 1931
Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband.
01 October 1927
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
