The star-studded group headed to Sammy Davis Jr. ‘s house, where the Rat Packer was screening A Soldier’s Story to a room ...

Dulé Hill stars as the silky crooner in a play about the last broadcast of his variety show, in 1957. By Elisabeth Vincentelli The composer’s musicals, including “Annie” and “Bye Bye Birdie,” captured ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Altovise Davis, the widow of Rat Pack singer and dancer Sammy Davis Jr., has died in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. Davis ...

The mood in hell was light. All smiles and hugs, Sammy Davis Jr. was in high spirits as he arrived at Paramount Studios in the fall of 1972 to film Poor Devil, a new NBC comedy set in the netherworld.

In a typical ten-day period recently, Sammy Davis, Jr., had this schedule: the final week of an eighteen-day engagement at the Copacabana (sixteen performances interspersed with general frolicking, a ...

The John Wayne estate recalls a powerful moment of friendship between "Duke" and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1962. While on tour for Hatari!, Duke and his son Patrick attended Sammy's performance in Windsor, ...

Back in the early ’60s, Sammy Davis Jr.’s entourage took up most of the first-class cabin on TWA flights from New York to Los Angeles. As an 18-year-old flight attendant, Margaret Bush-Ware just ...

Franklin’s recently released F.B.I. file reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, but also on popular Black entertainers ...

When I was a kid, I was Sammy Davis Jr. before I was anyone else. I started my entertainment career as a tap dancer. That was ...