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BETH (GEOTTCHE) MARION

LYONS, KOCH

Posted By: William Cramer (email)
Date: 12/25/2007 at 09:50:10

Beth Marion
Real name: Beth Geottche

1912 - 2003

Beth Marion was born in Clinton, Iowa July 11, 1912. Her screen career lasted about five years during the 1930s when she was the female lead and heroine in a dozen B-westerns starring Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jack Luden, Ken Maynard, Kermit Maynard, and George Houston.

Beth married stuntman Cliff Lyons in 1938 and retired from film work to raise a family. (Lyons' stuntwork included doubling Tom Mix in the serial THE MIRACLE RIDER (Mascot, 1935).) They had two sons but they divorced in the mid 1950s. She later married Julian Koch, a contractor and home builder, and lived in Oregon.

Beth passed away on February 18, 2003, at her home in Jacksonville, Oregon.

For more information, go to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547945/

http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies18.htm
 

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