{{Short description|American actor and director (1895–1985)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Buzzell | image = Edward Buzzell in Easy to Wed.jpg | image_size = | caption = Edward Buzzell in ''Easy to Wed'' (1946) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|11|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|01|11|1895|11|13|mf=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor, director, producer, writer | years_active = 1919&ndash;1961 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Ona Munson|1926|1931|end=div}} * {{marriage|Sara Clark<br>|1934|1934|end=}} * {{marriage|Lorraine Miller<br>|December 10, 1949}} }} | relatives = {{unbulleted list| Loring Buzzell (nephew)| Lu Ann Simms (niece-in-law)| Harold Hecht (nephew-in-law)}} }}

'''Edward Buzzell''' (November 13, 1895 &ndash; January 11, 1985) was an American film actor and 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), ''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.<ref>San Diego Evening Tribune, October 17, 1934</ref> He married actress Lorraine Miller on December 10, 1949.<ref>New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 12, 1949</ref> 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 producer Harold Hecht, and his son (Edward's nephew) Loring Buzzell was a music publisher and partner in the firm Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music, and was married to singer Lu Ann Simms.<ref>[https://archive.org/download/variety168-1947-11/variety168-1947-11.pdf "Marriages", ''Variety'', November 5 1947, p56]</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox21unse_5/page/50/mode/2up |journal=Cash Box|title=Music business shocked by death of Buzzell |pages=50 |date=1959-10-31|publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co.}} Digitized by William and Mary Libraries Special Collections Research Center.</ref>

==Filmography== as Actor * ''Midnight Life'' (1928) * ''Little Johnny Jones'' (1929) * ''Hello Thar'' (short, 1930) * ''The Royal Four-Flusher'' (short, 1930) * ''The Devil's Cabaret'' (short, 1930) * ''The Lone Star Stranger'' (short, 1931) * ''Check and Rubber Check'' (short, 1931) * ''She Served Him Right'' (short, 1931) * ''The Youngest Profession'' (1943)

{{div col|colwidth=22em}} as Director * ''The Lone Star Stranger'' (short, 1931) * ''Check and Rubber Check'' (short, 1931) * ''She Served Him Right'' (short, 1931) * ''The Big Timer'' (1932) * ''Hollywood Speaks'' (1932) * ''Virtue'' (1932) * ''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) * ''Three Married Men'' (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'' (1945) * ''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) {{div col end}}

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==External links== {{Commons category|Edward Buzzell}} *{{IMDb name|id=0125636|name=Edward Buzzell}}

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