Edward Buzzell was an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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 whose credits for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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 included Honolulu

Honolulu (1939 film)

Honolulu is an American musical film that was released by MGM in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell....

(1939), the Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers

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 films At the Circus

At the Circus

At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy...

(1939) and Go West (1940), the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

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 and Neptune's Daughter

Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)

Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc...

(1949) with Esther Williams

Esther Williams

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, and Easy to Wed

Easy to Wed

Easy to Wed is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell. The screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley is an updated adaptation of the screenplay of the 1936 film Libeled Lady by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer.-Plot:Financier J.B...

, starring Van Johnson

Van Johnson

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, Williams, and Ball.

Buzzell was born in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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. He appeared on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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, and was hired to star in the 1929 film version of George M. Cohan

George M. Cohan

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's Little Johnny Jones

Little Johnny Jones

For the blues pianist, see Little Johnny Jones Little Johnny Jones is a musical by George M. Cohan. The show introduced Cohan's tunes "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "The Yankee Doodle Boy." The "Yankee Doodle" character was inspired by real-life Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan.-Background:The...

with Alice Day

Alice Day

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. Buzzell appeared in a few Vitaphone

Vitaphone

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 shorts, and the two-strip Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 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

Ona Munson

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 in 1927, and they divorced in the early 30s. He later married actress Lorraine Miller. He died in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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at the age of 89.

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