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Edward Buzzell

Director, Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional Credits
Born November 13, 1900Died January 11, 1985 (84 years)
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Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1900 - January 11, 1985) was an American film director whose credits for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer included Honolulu (1939), the Marx Brothers films At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940), the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball and Neptune's Daughter (1949) with Esther Williams, and Easy to Wed, starring Van Johnson, Williams, and Ball.

Buzzell was born in Brooklyn. He appeared on Broadway, and was hired to star in the 1929 film version of George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones with Alice Day. Buzzell appeared in a few Vitaphone shorts, and the two-strip Technicolor short The Devil's Cabaret (1930) as Satan's assistant. He wrote a few screenplays in the early 1930s and later produced The Milton Berle Show which premiered on television in 1948.

Buzzell married actress Ona Munson in 1927, and they divorced in the early 30s. He later married actress Lorraine Miller. He died in Los Angeles at the age of 84.

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Known For

  • At the Circus
  • Song of the Thin Man
  • Go West
  • Neptune's Daughter
  • Virtue
  • Best Foot Forward
  • Easy to Wed
  • Honolulu
  • Ship Ahoy
  • Fast Company
  • Paradise for Three
  • A Woman of Distinction
  • The Youngest Profession
  • Married Bachelor
  • The Getaway
  • Ten Cents a Dance
  • Confidentially Connie
  • Mary Had a Little...

Edward Buzzell Filmography

1943
The Youngest Profession · as Man In Theatre
1931

1957
Goodyear Theatre (TV Series)
1954
1952

1977
The Hollywood Greats (TV Series) · as Self

1955
Ain't Misbehavin' · as Screenplay

1931
She Served Him Right · as Additional Dialogue
1931
Ten Cents a Dance · as Co-Director

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