Edward Buzzell
Edward Buzzell was an American film director whose credits include Child of Manhattan for Columbia Pictures, and for MetroGoldwynMayer, Honolulu , the Marx Brothers films At the Circus and Go West , the musicals Best Foot Forward with Lucille Ball, Song of the Thin Man with Myrna Loy, and Neptunes Daughter with Esther Williams, and Easy to Wed, starring Van Johnson, Williams, and Ball.
Buzzell was born in Brooklyn. He appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, and was hired to star in the 1929 film version of George M. Cohans Little Johnny Jones with Alice Day. Buzzell appeared in a few Vitaphone shorts, and the twostrip Technicolor short The Devils Cabaret as Satans assistant. He wrote screenplays in the early 1930s and later produced the popular The Milton Berle Show which premiered on television in 1948.
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