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.

Directed

1. Song of the Thin Man (1947) — Director
2. At the Circus (1939) — Director
3. Go West (1940) — Director
4. Neptune's Daughter (1949) — Director
5. Virtue (1932) — Director
6. Easy to Wed (1946) — Director
7. Fast Company (1938) — Director
8. Ship Ahoy (1942) — Director
9. The Get-Away (1941) — Director
10. Honolulu (1939) — Director
11. Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) — Director
12. The Youngest Profession (1943) — Director
13. The Big Timer (1932) — Director
14. Best Foot Forward (1943) — Director
15. Child of Manhattan (1933) — Director
16. A Woman of Distinction (1950) — Director
17. Paradise for Three (1938) — Director
18. Ann Carver's Profession (1933) — Director
19. Married Bachelor (1941) — Director
20. Confidentially Connie (1953) — Director
21. Three Wise Fools (1946) — Director
22. Cross Country Cruise (1934) — Director
23. Emergency Wedding (1950) — Director
24. Transient Lady (1935) — Director
25. Mary Had a Little... (1961) — Director
26. The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936) — Director
27. Ain't Misbehavin' (1955) — Director
28. The Omaha Trail (1942) — Director
29. As Good as Married (1937) — Director
30. The Girl Friend (1935) — Director
31. Three Married Men (1936) — Director
32. Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933) — Director
33. The Human Side (1934) — Director
34. Hollywood Speaks (1932) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Devil's Cabaret (1930) — Howie Burns
2. The Royal Four-Flusher (1930)
3. Little Johnny Jones (1929) — Johnny Jones
4. Midnight Life (1928) — Eddie Delaney