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Beverly Dennis, a former film and television actress who starred in The Red Buttons Show until she was blacklisted in the 1950s, died on Jan. 20. She was 79. She died of multiple myeloma at her Beverly Hills home, said her daughter, Amanda Kramer.
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In 1952, he starred in the short-lived Red Buttons Show on television, but the high point of his career came in the 1957 film Sayonara. He costarred with Marlon Brando, playing an American airman who marries a Japanese woman, in a tragic tale of racial prejudice.
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In the early 1950s Buttons began to appear on television, and in 1952 CBS signed him for the weekly Red Buttons Show to compete directly with NBC's Milton Berle. After the first programme, broadcast on October 14 1952, the CBS switchboard was inundated with calls from enthusiastic viewers.
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In danger of returning to obscurity, Mr. Buttons was saved by an admirer, director Joshua Logan. He had once seen Mr. Buttons in a straight dramatic television role as the troubled nightclub comedian Joe E. Brown and cast him as a persecuted Air Force sergeant in his 1957 film version of James A. Michener's novel "Sayonara."
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In 1952, the red-haired comedian starred in the CBS television series The Red Buttons Show. Extremely popular during its first season -- Buttons' distinctive theme song in which he'd clap his hands together as if in prayer and sing, "Ho ho! He he! Ha ha! Strange things are happening!" was a sort of hit among American kids -- it was a blend of variety acts and a weekly sitcom.
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In 1952, Buttons received his own variety series on television- The Red Buttons Show. The show ran for three years, and was considered very successful; Buttons even won an Emmy for Best Comedian.
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