Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happened was that Davis over exposed himself into one of show business' biggest deals. Last week he signed a 13-to-18-week contract with NBC making him the first Negro to enjoy what the trade covetously calls "the Gleason treatment." Like Jackie Gleason on CBS, Davis will...
Million in Tahoe. The Sammy Davis Show, set for Friday nights at 8:30 E.S.T., will finally provide a showcase wide enough to demonstrate all of the star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a...
There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New...
"Stick with Satchmo." As Davis recounts it in Yes I Can, he acquired his hard-driving habits almost from the cradle. His vaudevillian father took him into his act when he was three, saw him a headliner before his ninth birthday. The hours young Sammy kept were not those recommended...
His nose was broken in one barracks fight; in another, five soldiers painted him white. "You ain't never gonna be this white, no matter how hard you try," one of them told him. But he emerged from the service with a spirit that was unbroken, determined to scrub...