All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name printed under an archival newspaper photo of her posing with other Las ...

Even Sammy Davis Jr., who ruled Sin City along with his fellow ... By her own admission, it was “a way to deal with the dissatisfaction of our marriage. I've always had a problem saying what ...

Artists who have recorded it since include Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, Peggy Lee, Tom Jones, Ann-Margret, Jefferson Airplane, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr. and Kansas City’s own Marilyn Maye.

May signed with 20th Century Fox and relocated to Hollywood, where she met Sammy Davis Jr. in 1959. The two wed the following year, despite the fact interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 states ...

It's just crazy to realize that interracial marriage was actually illegal ... There is no question that Sammy Davis, Jr. was one of the biggest African-American stars of Mid-Century America.

The marriage ended after six years. Darin never stopped playing the clubs. Sammy Davis Jr. once said that Bobby Darin was the one person he wouldn't want to have to follow. "Absolutely true," said ...

The opportunity came by way of an invitation from none other than entertainment legend Sammy Davis Jr., who had been captivated by her ... actress and TV personality Jackie Lou Blanco. Their marriage ...

Jazz, dance and music icons like Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie ... Van Hook was a journalist for the Ohio State News, a Black newspaper in the early 1900s, and the first Black person hired as ...

Sammy Davis Jr.’s remarkable journey began on vaudeville stages when ... Life shifted dramatically for young Sammy when his parents’ marriage ended. His father’s custody decision at age three charted ...

Many historians believe that newspaper images from these and other ... as were Muhammad Ali (when he was still known as Cassius Clay), Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jackie Robinson ...

And one has to wonder how much of that transformation — not just in Portland, but around the nation — can be attributed to the influence of one man, a man still today widely known as “The World’s ...

Columbia Pictures, which had Novak under contract, stepped in and, as many accounts say, threatened Davis with violence. Despite the actors’ denial of their relationship, a Chicago gossip column ...