Edward Buzzell

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1900-11-13

Deathday 1985-01-11 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Eddie Buzzell

Edward Buzzell

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Buzzell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

1961
1955
Ain't Misbehavin'

as Director

1953
1950
1950
Emergency Wedding

as Director

1949
Neptune's Daughter

as Director

1947
1946
Easy to Wed

as Director

1946
Three Wise Fools

as Director

1945
1943
Best Foot Forward

as Director

1943
1942
Ship Ahoy

as Director

1942
The Omaha Trail

as Director

1941
The Get-Away

as Director

1941
Married Bachelor

as Director

1940
Go West

as Director

1939
At the Circus

as Director

1939
Honolulu

as Director

1938
Fast Company

as Director

1938
Paradise for Three

as Director

1937
As Good as Married

as Director

1936
Three Married Men

as Director

1935
The Girl Friend

as Director

1935
Transient Lady

as Director

1934
1934
The Human Side

as Director

1933
Child of Manhattan

as Director

1933
1932
Virtue

as Director

1932
The Big Timer

as Director

1932
Hollywood Speaks

as Director

Writer

1955
Ain't Misbehavin'

as Screenplay

1935
Transient Lady

as Screenplay

1934
The Human Side

as Writer

1929

Actor

1930
The Devil's Cabaret

as Howie Burns

1929
Little Johnny Jones

as Johnny Jones

1928
Midnight Life

as Eddie Delaney