Editing Red Buttons (section)

==Career==
In September 1942, Buttons made his Broadway debut in ''Vickie'' with Ferrer and [[Uta Hagen]]. Later that year, he appeared in the Minsky's show ''Wine, Women and Song.'' This was the last classic [[American burlesque|burlesque]] show in New York City history;  the Mayor [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia|La Guardia]] administration closed it down. Buttons was on stage when the show was raided.

Drafted into the [[United States Army Air Forces]], Buttons in 1943 appeared in the Army Air Forces' Broadway show ''[[Winged Victory (play)|Winged Victory]]'', along with several future stars, including [[Mario Lanza]], [[John Forsythe]], [[Karl Malden]], and [[Lee J. Cobb]]. A year later, he appeared in [[Darryl F. Zanuck]]'s [[Winged Victory (film)|movie version of the play]], directed by [[George Cukor]]. Buttons also entertained troops in the [[European Theatre of World War II|European Theater]] in the same [[Jeep Show]] unit as [[Mickey Rooney]].

After the war, Buttons continued to perform in Broadway shows. He also performed at Broadway movie houses with [[big band]]s. He appeared as himself, delivering a comic monologue, in the [[RKO Radio Pictures]] movie revue ''[[Footlight Varieties]]'' (1951).