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Red Buttons: Academy Award
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Red Buttons (1919-2006) was a comedian and actor who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting actor in 1957, for his dramatic role on Sayonara. He was one of many Hollywood stars who appeared in the 1979 special The Muppets Go Hollywood.
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Buttons' career thrived during the post-World War II period. During the late '40s and early '50s, he performed with the big bands at venues like the Paramount. He ... did the nightclub and cafe circuit, including the Copacabana. He made numerous guest appearance in the early days of live TV, performing guest spots on such shows as "Cavalcade of Stars," "The Texaco Hour," "Playhouse 90," "U.S. Steel," "Studio One," "The General Electric Theater" and many others. His appearances were widely popular and CBS offered him his own show in 1952, "The Red Buttons Show." The show was a hit, and Buttons won the best comedian of 1953 award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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While possibly best known as a comedian, Buttons displayed his dramatic talents in the 1957 film Sayonara. Costarring with Marlon Brando, Buttons played an American soldier in love with a Japanese woman while stationed in Japan, grappling with issues of cultural and racial prejudice and discrimination. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work that same year. He went to perform in more than 25 films, including Hatari! (1969) with Jane Fonda, and It Could Happen to You (1994) with Nicholas Cage.
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