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• "It was ... the first truly great film role
of his career — Sportin' Life in MGM's
1959 remake of the Gershwins' and
DuBose Heyward's Porgy and Bess.
Sammy had concluded his formal con-
version to Judaism some months before
filming began and had to inform Samuel
Goldwyn he couldn't work on Yom
Kippur. The producer tried in vain to
get his star to relent, but Sammy stood
firm. 'Directors I can fight,' Goldwyn
kvetched. 'Fires on the set I can fight.
Writers, even actors I can fight. But a
Jewish colored fellow? This I can't fight!'"
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• For the Kennedy camp in 1960,
dreaded political reality set in with the
Oct. 16 wedding date set for Davis
and May Britt. "Grateful for (and
dependent upon) the support that the
Rat Pack's stumping afforded them,
[the Kennedys] were nevertheless fear-
ful of alienating Southern voters out-
raged by a black-white (and Jewish)
marriage before the election. ... In a
sad, gallant move, Sammy phoned
Frank [Sinatra], his best man and clos-
est friend, and told him the wedding
date would be bumped to Nov. 13,
after the election. Sinatra was not able
to reciprocate the gesture; instead, as
the organizer- of JFK's all-star gala, it
was strictly cpassoverl time for Sammy
and May, who were not invited."
• "Much of Davis' onstage humor
seems to stem from the fact of his
being the only black person in the
room, whether it was Town Hall or a
Vegas showroom. His stance is always
that of the outsider. 'I collect racial
cliches, that's because I have a choice
of two,' he said at the Sands in 1966.
`I get up in the morning not knowing
whether to be smart and sting or
shiftless and lazy ... and you ain't lived
till you've tried kosher watermelon.'"
• "Davis' good diction, the grand articu-
lation was always there. Twice during his
career he was criticized by white Jewish
performers Jerry Lewis and Milton Berle
for using such high-flown diction and
sounding like a fake Englishman. ...
Davis was, like Berle and Lewis, a Jew as
well, but he knew he was not enjoying
his particular successes or suffering his
particular humiliations because he was a
Jew. ... Davis' speech was a kind of ele-
gance and grace, a dignity, sometimes a
bit forced and self-conscious, but all the
more affecting for that, that said ...
may be other things, but I'm as
American as anybody else.'" ❑
— From "Yes I Can!
The Sammy Davis Jr. Story"
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