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Name  Edward Buzzell

Role  Film director
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Born  November 13, 1895 (1895-11-13) Brooklyn, New York
Occupation  Actor, director, producer, writer
Years active  1931–1961 (As Director)
Died  January 11, 1985, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse  Lorraine Miller (m. 1949), Ona Munson (m. 1927)
Movies  Easy to Wed, Go West, At the Circus, Neptune's Daughter, Song of the Thin Man
Similar People  Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, Esther Williams, Irving Brecher, Chico Marx

The Youngest Profession (1943) - Edward Buzzell


Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1895 – January 11, 1985) was an American film director whose credits include Child of Manhattan (1933) for Columbia Pictures, and for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Honolulu (1939), the Marx Brothers films At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940), the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball, Song of the Thin Man (1947) with Myrna Loy, 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 in vaudeville and 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 screenplays in the early 1930s and later produced the popular The Milton Berle Show which premiered on television in 1948.

In 1926, Buzzell married actress Ona Munson, who later played Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind. They divorced in 1931. He married socialite Sara Clark on August 11, 1934 but the marriage only lasted 5 weeks and she left him. He married actress Lorraine Miller on December 10, 1949. He died in Los Angeles in 1985 at the age of 89.

Selected filmography

As Actor

  • Midnight Life (1928)
  • Little Johnny Jones (short, 1929)
  • The Devil's Cabaret (short, 1930)
  • The Big Timer (1932)
  • Virtue (1932)
  • References

    Edward Buzzell Wikipedia