Edward Buzzell
Directing
- Born
- November 13, 1900 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- January 11, 1985 (age 84)
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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.
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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
Song of the Thin Man
August 28, 1947
At the Circus
October 20, 1939
Go West
December 6, 1940
Neptune's Daughter
June 10, 1949
Ten Cents a Dance
January 30, 1931
Virtue
October 25, 1932
Ship Ahoy
April 16, 1942
Easy to Wed
July 25, 1946
Fast Company
July 5, 1938
The Get-Away
June 13, 1941
Honolulu
February 3, 1939
The Youngest Profession
February 26, 1943
Behind the camera36
- 1961Mary Had a Little... Director
- 1955Ain't Misbehavin' Director, Screenplay
- 1953Confidentially Connie Director
- 1950Emergency Wedding Director
- 1950A Woman of Distinction Director
- 1949Neptune's Daughter Director
- 1947Song of the Thin Man Director
- 1946Three Wise Fools Director
- 1946Easy to Wed Director
- 1945Keep Your Powder Dry