3/15/2024 0 Comments The rat pack king of the roadAfter a stint in the Army, he worked his way up, appearing on (th e white) Eddie Cantor’s TV show, becoming pals with Frank Sinatra, constantly touring.ĭavis had a well-publicized affair with the white actress Kim Novak in 1957, when mixed race relations were fully taboo in Hollywood. Instead, Davis went on the road and really never came off it. He never went to school in an interview he says he has the writing skills of a second-grader. By the age of 7, he was singing in a movie with Ethel Waters. Davis began dancing professionally in a vaudeville act with his father and godfather at the age of 3. There was nothing less cool in 1972 than Richard Nixon.īut then Pollard reviews the incredible life that led up to that awkward moment. Pollard starts out his documentary “Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” with what was surely Davis’ most uncool moment - his hugging of Richard Nixon at a campaign rally in 1972. was a fan), he was the coolest of the cool. A charter member of the swinging Rat Pack in the early ’60s as well as a civil rights activist (Martin Luther King Jr. He could dance, he could sing, he could play instruments, he could act. was a lifelong sponge he absorbed technique and turned it into artistry.
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