Yes I Can / The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.

Yes I Can

The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.

By: Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jane and Burt Boyar
First Published: September, 1965
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 630

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When it was published in September 1965, Yes I Can quickly became a critical and commercial success – widely acclaimed for its engrossing tale of life as a black performer in segregated America, and for level of honesty unusual in celebrity autobiographies of the time. For anyone wanting to understand Sammy Davis, Jr. it is required reading.

The Tragic Death Of Sammy Davis Jr.'s Daughter Tracey

Sammy Davis and Tracey Davis

The Tragic Death 

Of Sammy Davis Jr.'s Daughter Tracey

BY SAM SILVERMAN
NOV. 18, 2020 3:43 PM EST

Tracey Davis, the daughter of music legend Sammy Davis Jr. and Swedish actress May Britt (pictured), died at the age of 59 in Franklin, Tenn. According to the Associated Press, the author passed away on Nov. 2, 2020 following a brief illness, although the specific cause of death is not yet confirmed.

 

Sammy Davis, Jr. – My Father

By: Tracey Davis, with Dolores A. Barclay
First Published: April 1996
Publisher: General Publishing Group, Inc.
Pages: 272

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The first book about Sammy Davis, Jr. to be published after his death was written by his daughter, Tracey Davis, who was born in 1961 – the first child of Sammy and May Britt. Sammy and May would later adopt two further children, Mark in 1963 and Jeff in 1965.

Kim Novak

 

Interview

‘I had to leave Hollywood to save myself’: Kim Novak on art, bipolar, Hitchcock and happiness

Simon Hattenstone

Kim Novak starred in Vertigo – voted the best film ever made – but knew she was too fragile for fame. She talks about her tough childhood, the sensitive side of Sinatra and starting again in her forties

Simon Hattenstone

Monday 15 February 2021

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im Novak apologises for the mess. And, to be fair, the studio at her Oregon home is fabulously messy. Behind her are a couple of canvases she has been working on; to the left and right, all sorts of all sorts. At the back of the room, her rescue dog, Patches, lies on a sofa, half snoozing, half listening. Occasionally, Sadie Ann, her husband’s pudelpointer, wanders in, sniffs around and leaves.

Novak, who turned 88 two days ago, is so much more than a Hollywood legend. The star of Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a wonderful artist, a mental health activist (she is proudly bipolar), an anti-bullying campaigner, a vet’s assistant and one of the greatest life forces I’ve spoken to.

The Sixties / The Color of Love

THE SIXTIES

The Color of Love

BY SAM KASHNER

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kim Novak was Harry Cohn’s revenge on Rita Hayworth. Sammy Davis Jr. was Kim Novak’s revenge on Harry Cohn. What began as a boldface item in Dorothy Kilgallen’s gossip column in the New York Journal-American threatened to become a national scandal on the eve of America’s long struggle for civil rights.

Kim Novak

It started in 1957 at Chicago’s most famous nightclub, Chez Paree. The man known as “the greatest entertainer in the world” was onstage, the smoke from his cigarette trellising the air. You had to see him: the gorgeous shirt, the cuff links, the way everything billowed. He was in the dark and suddenly the spotlight picked him up—he was electric, he was hot, it was almost a sexual thing. He was singing to Kim Novak, sitting at a stageside table; she had just finished work on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the most challenging film of her career. That night would be the first and virtually the last time that Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. would be seen in public together. At the heart of their star-crossed affair was one of Hollywood’s sacred monsters: the notorious Harry Cohn.