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Eddie Buzzell

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Book WriterActor 1895–1985 On stage 19201929

Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1895 – 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 produ…

On stage 8 productions, 9 years

1920 Broadway Brevities of 1920 Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by J. C. Huffman 105 perf.
1921 The Rose Girl Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by J. C. Huffman 100 perf.
1922 The Gingham Girl Earl Carroll Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 322 perf.
1924 No Other Girl Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by John Meehan 56 perf.
1926 Sweetheart Time Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Larry Ceballos 143 perf.
1926 The Desert Song Casino Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Hurley 471 perf.
1928 Good Boy Hammerstein's Theatre · Original · directed by Reginald Hammerstein 253 perf.
1929 Lady Fingers Vanderbilt Theatre · Original · directed by Roy Mack 132 perf.

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Worked with more than once8 names

William Sully 2 productions
Muriel Greel 2 productions
Lucille Moore 2 productions
Louise Allen 2 productions
Helen Ford 2 productions
Betty Wright 2 productions
Alice Monroe 2 productions
Al Sexton 2 productions

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Also credited on2 works

Best Foot Forward
Little Johnny Jones

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In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Vivienne Segal, Robert Halliday, Eddie Buzzell, Pearl Regay, William O’Nealebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Girl” with Helen Ford and Eddie Buzzell, “Sally, Irene and Mary” with Eddie Dowling and Hal Van Rensselaer, and “The Greenwich Village Follies” with Carl Randall, Marjorie Peterson and Savoy and Brennan. Elsie Janis appeared in “Elsie Janis and Her Gang,” Peggy Wood was in “The Clinging Vine,”’ Edith Day, Queenie Smith and Hal Skelly were…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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