Edward Buzzell

Known for: Directing
Born: November 13, 1900, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: January 11, 1985
Movies: 39

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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.

Best-Known Movies

6.7

Song of the Thin Man

1947

6.4

At the Circus

1939

6.6

Go West

1940

6.1

Neptune's Daughter

1949

6.6

Virtue

1932

6.4

Ship Ahoy

1942

6.4

Easy to Wed

1946

5.4

Fast Company

1938

6.0

The Get-Away

1941

6.5

Honolulu

1939

Filmography

1930	The Devil's Cabaret	Howie Burns
1930	The Royal Four-Flusher
1929	Little Johnny Jones	Johnny Jones
1928	Midnight Life	Eddie Delaney

Directing, Writing & Producing

1961	Mary Had a Little...	Director
1955	Ain't Misbehavin'	Director, Screenplay
1953	Confidentially Connie	Director
1950	Emergency Wedding	Director
1950	A Woman of Distinction	Director
1949	Neptune's Daughter	Director
1947	Song of the Thin Man	Director
1946	Three Wise Fools	Director
1946	Easy to Wed	Director
1945	Keep Your Powder Dry	Director
1943	Best Foot Forward	Director
1943	The Youngest Profession	Director
1942	The Omaha Trail	Director
1942	Ship Ahoy	Director
1941	Married Bachelor	Director
1941	The Get-Away	Director
1940	Go West	Director
1939	At the Circus	Director
1939	Honolulu	Director
1938	Fast Company	Director
1938	Paradise for Three	Director
1937	As Good as Married	Director
1936	The Luckiest Girl in the World	Director
1936	Three Married Men	Director
1935	The Girl Friend	Director
1935	Transient Lady	Director, Screenplay
1934	The Human Side	Director, Writer
1934	Cross Country Cruise	Director
1933	Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!	Director, Writer
1933	Ann Carver's Profession	Director
1933	Child of Manhattan	Director
1932	Virtue	Director
1932	Hollywood Speaks	Director
1932	The Big Timer	Director
1929	Little Johnny Jones	Writer

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