Directing

Edward Buzzell

Born — Died

1900-11-13 — 1985-01-11

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1900 - January 11, 1985) was an American film director whose credits for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer included Honolulu (1939), the Marx Brothers films At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940), the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball and Neptune's Daughter (1949) with Esther Williams, and Easy to Wed, starring Van Johnson, Williams, and Ball. Buzzell was born in Brooklyn. He appeared on 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 the two-strip Technicolor short The Devil's Cabaret (1930) as Satan's as…

Known for

Go West poster
6.6

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

Go West

1940

At the Circus poster
6.4

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.

At the Circus

1939

Song of the Thin Man poster
6.7

While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in to clear their friends and uncover the real killer. Their investigation leads through a lively world of jazz clubs, radio personalities, high society, and backstage rivalries, where almost everyone has a secret and the next clue may be hidden in the music.

Song of the Thin Man

1947

Neptune's Daughter poster
6.1

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.

Neptune's Daughter

1949

Confidentially Connie poster
5.8

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

Confidentially Connie

1953

The Devil's Cabaret poster
5.9

At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns, the task of getting more people to his domain. In front of a nightclub, Mr. Burns invites a crowd of people to come inside to The Devil's Cabaret to be entertained. After they enjoy songs and dancing, the people go willingly to Hades.

The Devil's Cabaret

1930

Film credits

Behind the camera

Go West poster
6.6

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

Go West

1940

At the Circus poster
6.4

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.

At the Circus

1939

Song of the Thin Man poster
6.7

While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in to clear their friends and uncover the real killer. Their investigation leads through a lively world of jazz clubs, radio personalities, high society, and backstage rivalries, where almost everyone has a secret and the next clue may be hidden in the music.

Song of the Thin Man

1947

Neptune's Daughter poster
6.1

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.

Neptune's Daughter

1949

Confidentially Connie poster
5.8

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

Confidentially Connie

1953

Three Wise Fools poster
5.7

An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

Three Wise Fools

1946

Transient Lady poster
6.3

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

Transient Lady

1935

Transient Lady poster
6.3

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

Transient Lady

1935

Ain't Misbehavin' poster
5.7

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Ain't Misbehavin'

1955

Ain't Misbehavin' poster
5.7

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Ain't Misbehavin'

1955

Keep Your Powder Dry poster
6.1

A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.

Keep Your Powder Dry

1945

Ann Carver's Profession poster
7.0

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

Ann Carver's Profession

1933

Honolulu poster
6.5

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Honolulu

1939

A Woman of Distinction poster
7.0

Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.

A Woman of Distinction

1950

Easy to Wed poster
6.4

When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.

Easy to Wed

1946

The Youngest Profession poster
5.3

Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on disinformation from a meddling governess, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents.

The Youngest Profession

1943

Ship Ahoy poster
6.4

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.

Ship Ahoy

1942

The Get-Away poster
6.0

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.

The Get-Away

1941

The Omaha Trail poster
7.0

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

The Omaha Trail

1942

As Good as Married poster
8.0

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

As Good as Married

1937

Best Foot Forward poster
6.8

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

Best Foot Forward

1943

Emergency Wedding poster
6.0

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.

Emergency Wedding

1950

The Luckiest Girl in the World poster
7.2

A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

The Luckiest Girl in the World

1936

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! poster
8.0

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

1933

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! poster
8.0

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

1933

The Girl Friend poster
7.0

An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.

The Girl Friend

1935

Cross Country Cruise poster
6.7

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.

Cross Country Cruise

1934

The Human Side poster
9.0

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

The Human Side

1934

The Human Side poster
9.0

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

The Human Side

1934

Paradise for Three poster
7.4

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

Paradise for Three

1938

Three Married Men poster
8.0

Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.

Three Married Men

1936

Virtue poster
6.6

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.

Virtue

1932

Married Bachelor poster
6.4

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.

Married Bachelor

1941

Fast Company poster
5.4

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Fast Company

1938

Hollywood Speaks poster
10.0

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.

Hollywood Speaks

1932

The Big Timer poster
4.6

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

The Big Timer

1932

Child of Manhattan poster
7.2

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.

Child of Manhattan

1933

Mary Had a Little... poster
4.0

A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.

Mary Had a Little...

1961

Little Johnny Jones poster
7.0

Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swings from the racetracks of America to England and the historical National Derby, with plenty of red-white-and-blue bunting waving behind the little patriot.

Little Johnny Jones

1929