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First Performance 22/05/2024. Running Time TBC. Olivier Award-Winner Giles Terera (Hamilton) leads the cast of Sammy, the major new musical based on the life and career of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. At a young age Sammy set his sights on stardom and never looked back. From humble beginnings he shot to fame as a member of The Rat Pack ...
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine the performer’s vast career and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial ...
From America's Dance Honors, taped in January 1990 and aired on July 5th...nearly two months after Sammy's passing on May 16th. Liza Minnelli taped a special...
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Sammy hosted his own hour-long weekly prime-time network variety show, The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show in 1966 (a milestone for people of color which was incredibly rare at the time). He later hosted his own syndicated talk show, Sammy & Company , from 1975-77.
Then I started phoning it in. I became a part time Sammy Davis, Jr. It was insanity.” His subsequent renewed focus on work saw him film a movie (A Man Called Adam), publish and promote an autobiography (Yes I Can) and host a weekly one-hour variety TV show (The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show on NBC
Sammy Davis, Jr. is considered by many to have been the world’s greatest entertainer. In addition to Sammy’s unmistakable voice and talents as a dancer, he was also a Broadway headliner, a television and film actor, a comic and impressionist, a multi-instrumentalist and a bestselling author.
Sammy Davis Jr.. Actor: The Cannonball Run. Sammy Davis Jr. was often billed as the "greatest living entertainer in the world". He was born in Harlem, Manhattan, the son of dancer Elvera Davis (née Sanchez) and vaudeville star Sammy Davis Sr..
