Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Mon 16 Jun 2008 04:12:11p, hahabogus told us...
>
> > "Nancy Young" > wrote in
> > :
> >
> >> Margaret Suran wrote:
> >>
> >>> Red Buttons, exhausted from the show and dressed in a robe, but
> >>> glowing with the overwhelming love his audience had shown him during
> >>> the show, greeted us with hugs. There was Seltzer, Tea and
> >>> Pepperidge Farm cookies, typical Jewish refreshments and he urged us
> >>> to help ourselves. He did not care why we had come up, he was happy
> >>> that we were there
> >>> and he thanked us and regaled us with stories of his days as a comic
> >>> at the Borscht Belt Hotels, his TV years and his years as a Hollywood
> >>> Actor. About a dozen or so people were in his dressing room and
> >>> nobody left until the theater night clerk telephoned and asked us to
> >>> leave, so he could go home.
> >>
> >> What a story! I love that! You can imagine him being on the road
> >> must have been a little lonely, and you gave him an audience and
> >> some good cheer. How nice is that.
> >>
> >> nancy
> >
> > Do you remember that John Wayne movie about Africa...Had that song Baby
> > elephant walk in it?...The role Red Buttons played in that movie is one
> > of my best memories of him. The Duke was all about catching animals and
> > Red devised a way to catch a mess of monkeys....
> >
> > What was your favorite Red Buttons moment?
> >
>
> My two favorite roles he played were in Sayonara and The Poseidon
> Adventure.


He has a tiny but hilarious role (almost a cameo, really) as an American MP
investigating the goings - on at the West Berlin offices of Coca - Cola in
the 1961 Billy Wilder Comedy _One, Two, Three!_...he does a Jimmy Cagney
imitation - *to* Jimmy Cagney, who is the beleagured manager of Coke's West
Berlin operations.

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Best
Greg