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'''Edward Buzzell''' (13 November 1900 - 11 January 1985) was a director for [[MGM]] who directed many of their films in the late 1930s, including ''[[Honolulu (1939 film)|Honolulu]]'' (1939), the [[Marx Brothers]] films ''[[At the Circus]]'' (1939) and ''[[Go West (film)|Go West]]'' (1940), the musicals ''[[Best Foot Forward (film)|Best Foot Forward]]'' (1943) with [[Lucille Ball]], and ''[[Neptune's Daughter]]'' (1949) with [[Esther Williams]].
 
He appeared on [[Broadway theatre|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 a 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 was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]].
 
Buzzell married actress [[Ona Munson]] in 1927, and they divorced in the early 30's. He later married actress [[Lorraine Miller (actress)|Lorraine Miller]].
He appeared on [[Broadway theatre|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 a 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 30's. He later married actress [[Lorraine Miller (actress)|Lorraine Miller]].
 
He died in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], aged 84.
 
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