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Altovise Joanne Davis (née Gore; August 30, 1943 – March 14, 2009) [1] [2] was an American entertainer, best known for being Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife. Early life [ edit ]
The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (1966) Sammy Davis Jr. Sings and Laurindo Almeida Plays (with Laurindo Almeida) (1966) Sammy Davis Jr. Sings the Complete "Dr. Dolittle" (1967) Lonely Is the Name (1968) I've Gotta Be Me (1968) The Goin's Great (1969) Something for Everyone (1970) Sammy Steps Out (1970) Sammy Davis Jr. Now (1972) Portrait of Sammy Davis ...
She met Sammy Davis Jr. in 1959. They began dating, and, after a brief engagement, were married on 13 November 1960. Their wedding caused controversy. A rumour or myth was that John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy told Frank Sinatra to tell Davis not to marry May until after the 1960 Presidential Election.
In 1967, Sammy Davis Jr. offered an insightful guest column about the everyday problems that he and others faced as Black people in America. In the 1960s, America seemed on the brink of a second ...
Elvera "Baby" Sanchez Davis (September 1, 1905 – September 3, 2000) was an American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr.. Davis Jr. stated that his mother was Puerto Rican and born in San Juan; however, in the 2003 biography In Black and White, author Wil Haygood wrote that Davis' mother was born in New York City, of Afro-Cuban descent, and that Davis claimed she was Puerto Rican because ...
Deconstructing Sammy is a book by author Matt Birkbeck about the life and death of Sammy Davis Jr. and the subsequent efforts to restore his legacy. [1] Published in September 2008 by Amistad/HarperCollins the book follows the efforts of a Pennsylvania lawyer and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Albert "Sonny" Murray Jr., who was hired in 1994 by Sammy's poverty-stricken wife Altovise to help ...
Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B. Taylor (1870–1956) and Robert Davis (1868–1948). He and his former wife Elvera Sanchez were both dancers in a vaudeville troupe. The couple split up when their son Sammy Jr. was three. Davis took custody of his son, who then went into show business with his father.
Eduardo de Mesa Eigenmann (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈaɪɡɛnmɐn]; born February 18, 1940), better known by his stage name Eddie Mesa (Tagalog pronunciation:), is a Filipino retired actor and singer. He was discovered by talent agents when he sang a Sammy Davis song.