Highest rated movie: Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Lowest rated movie: Honolulu (1939)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Edward Buzzell? Cinafilm has a total of 191 reviews across 11 movies directed by Edward Buzzell.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 58%.
Song of the Thin Man is Edward Buzzell's highest rated movie, with a score of 68% based on 48 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Edward Buzzell is Honolulu, with a score of 50% based on 5 reviews.
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 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 30s. He later married actress Lorraine Miller. He died in Los Angeles at the age of 84.
Edward Buzzell has directed films starring Bess Flowers, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Bedford and Hazel Dohlman.
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