BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers

Subject: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Fiolar
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 08:53 AM

More sad news: Two more have joined the celestial choir. Kasey Rogers best remembered as Louise Tate in "Bewitched" and the great Red Buttons. Farewell.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 09:36 AM

Yup. "You know they got a helluva band"...and a helluva acting troupe.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 09:48 AM

I'll miss Red...one of the very few I actually found funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:12 AM

Aaron Schwatt..gone? So very sad...I watched him as Red Buttons in the early days of fuzzy B&W TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:21 AM

Yet another one I had thought long gone!

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: pdq
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:06 PM

Kasey Rogers in

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Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 02:12 PM

And Jan Murray, I see. Kasey was an excellent actress. Red was always good for a hoot. RIP.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 02:41 PM

Well at least Red can't say he never had an Obit!!! Better actor than given credit for.....His multiple show turn on "E.R." was poignant and extremely well done......Also the first man to get naked on TV....Go find the story, its around!

Thanks Red.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 07:06 PM

He was brilliant in They Shoot Horses Don't They - his onscreen death was one of the most poignant I've ever seen. R.I.P.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Red Buttons and Kasey Rogers
From: GUEST,Mike Miller
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:20 PM

I remember seeing Red Buttons on a TV Special called "In The Fiddler's House". The show was about klezmer music and Red appeared in a segment that was filmed in a kosher dairy restaurant. He was recalling his days as a Yiddish performer in the Catskill Mountain resorts. His Yiddish was excellent. I suspect it was his first language. He might have been the last of the great Borsht Belt entertainers of the 30's and 40's. It was a time when Jewish folksongs and stories were molded into the popular culture of America. We will not see that time again, nor will we see the like of Aaron Chwait.

                     Mike