Edward Buzzell
Edward Buzzell | |
|---|---|
 Edward Buzzell in Easy to Wed (1946) | |
| Born | November 13, 1895 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 1985 (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, producer, writer |
| Years active | 1931–1961 (director) |
| Spouse(s) |
Sara Clark
(1934–1934)Lorraine Miller
(m. 1949) |
Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1895 – January 11, 1985) was an American film director whose credits include Child of Manhattan (1933); Honolulu (1939); the Marx Brothers films At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940); the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943), Song of the Thin Man (1947), and Neptune's Daughter (1949); and Easy to Wed (1946).
Born in Brooklyn, Buzzell appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, and he 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 five weeks.[1] He married actress Lorraine Miller on December 10, 1949.[2] 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)
as Director
- Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
- Love, Honor, and Oh Baby! (1933)
- Child of Manhattan (1933)
- Cross Country Cruise (1934)
- The Human Side (1934)
- The Girl Friend (1935)
- Transient Lady (1935)
- The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936)
- As Good as Married (1937)
- Paradise for Three (1938)
- Fast Company (1938)
- At the Circus (1939)
- Honolulu (1939)
- Go West (1940)
- The Get-Away (1941)
- Married Bachelor (1941)
- The Omaha Trail (1942)
- Ship Ahoy (1942)
- The Youngest Profession (1943)
- Best Foot Forward (1943)
- Keep Your Powder Dry (1944)
- Three Wise Fools (1946)
- Easy to Wed (1946)
- Song of the Thin Man (1947)
- Neptune's Daughter (1949)
- Emergency Wedding (1950)
- A Woman of Distinction (1950)
- Confidentially Connie (1953)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
- Mary Had a Little... (1961)
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