Edward Buzzell | |
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 Edward Buzzell inEasy to Wed (1946) | |
| Born | (1895-11-13)November 13, 1895 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 1985(1985-01-11) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, producer, writer |
| Years active | 1929–1961 |
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Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1895 – January 11, 1985) was an American film actor and director whose credits includeChild of Manhattan (1933);Honolulu (1939); theMarx Brothers filmsAt the Circus (1939) andGo West (1940); the musicalsBest Foot Forward (1943),Song of the Thin Man (1947), andNeptune's Daughter (1949); andEasy to Wed (1946).
Born in Brooklyn, Buzzell appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, and he was hired to star in the 1929 film version ofGeorge M. Cohan'sLittle Johnny Jones withAlice Day. Buzzell appeared in a fewVitaphone shorts and the two-stripTechnicolor shortThe Devil's Cabaret (1930) as Satan's assistant. He wrote screenplays in the early 1930s and later produced the popularThe Milton Berle Show, which premiered on television in 1948.
In 1926, Buzzell married actressOna Munson, who later played Belle Watling inGone 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 actressLorraine Miller on December 10, 1949.[2] He died in Los Angeles in 1985 at the age of 89. Buzzell's brother, Samuel Jesse Buzzell, was a music patent attorney in New York City; his daughter (Edward's niece) Gloria Joyce Buzzell was married to Academy Award-winning film producerHarold Hecht, and his son (Edward's nephew)Loring Buzzell was a music publisher and partner in the firmHecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music, and was married to singerLu Ann Simms.[3][4]
As Actor
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