When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he’d get a Bloody Mary.
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| Birth: | 5th February, 1919 |
| Death: | 13th July, 2006 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Actor, Comedian |
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Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 in New York City to Jewish immigrants Sophie and Michael Chwatt. At sixteen years old, Chwatt got a job as an entertaining bellhop at Ryan's Tavern in City Island, Bronx. The combination of his red hair and the large, shiny buttons on the bellhop uniforms inspired orchestra leader Charles "Dinty" Moore to call him "Red Buttons," the name under which he would later perform.
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