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- Birth nameEdward Nathan Buzzell
- Edward Buzzell was born in Brooklyn, NY, and became a musical comedy star on Broadway. He went to Hollywood in 1929 to star in the movie version (Little Johnny Jones (1929)) of the old George M. Cohan stage show "Little Johnny Jones" in 1929. He starred also in Vitaphone shorts, where he started his career as director. Subsequently he directed shorts for Columbia Pictures before he started directing features in 1933. Later he came to MGM, where he made his best remembered films with the Marx Brothers ( At the Circus (1939), Go West (1940)), Eleanor Powell (Ship Ahoy (1942), Honolulu (1939)) and Esther Williams (Neptune's Daughter (1949)).
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de> (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous) - Director, producer, songwriter and actor. After a high-school education, he was a boy actor with the Gus Edwards Company, and appeared in the Broadway musicals "The Gingham Girl", "The Desert Song", and "Lady Fingers". Then he wrote and directed films and later, wrote and produced television films. Joining ASCAP in 1961, he wrote the popular novelty songs "Mary Had a Little" and "Find 'Em, Feed 'Em, Fool 'Em, and Forget 'Em".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpousesMarion E. Laskin Hirschhorn(December 7, 1977 - ?)Lorraine Miller(December 10, 1949 - ?) (divorced)Sara L. Clark(August 11, 1934 - September 1934) (divorced)Ona Munson(July 16, 1926 - January 10, 1931) (divorced)
- During the 1950 California election campaign for US Senate, Buzzell filmed a newsreel on behalf of Congressman Richard Nixon and against former actress Helen Gahagan Douglas.
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