The relationship of Sammy Davis Jr. with this star led to a threat of crowd in his life
The artist had a warning to marry another woman - or others.
In 1957,Sammy Davis Jr. was a popular artist and soon become a member ofThe Rat Pack. ActorKim Novak was about to play in his biggest film,vertigo. Which you ask, at that time, Davis and Novak kicked offa case or a narrow friendship. Anyway, the connection was kept secret because of their fame and the fact that Davis was black and Novak was white.
But sneaking was not all they had to endure. According to aVanity Article on stars,Davis was threatened by the crowd Because of its link with Novak. Read the rest to find out who would have been behind, how they were connected to Novak, and Davis' shocking movement had to save themselves.
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Davis and Novak met in the late 1950s.
AccordingVanity,,Tony Curtis Set up Davis and Novak, who were both interested in knowing each other.
"I said," I'm going to have a party at home. Come, and I will invite Kim "," said Curtis, according to the magazine. "They both came and they spent the evening together - deeply, deeply in the conversation. I could see from the start that they got along in an intense way, and it was the beginning of the relationship."
Novak, now 89, told another story. She explained toThe Hollywood Reporter in 2021 thatShe met Davis When he asked to do a photography session with her. Then she attended the party at Curtis, during which she believes that she was drugged. She said that she did not realize at the time, but now she thinks that her drink was enriched and thinks that it was perhaps Curtis who did it because she had only one glass and then remembered anything else.
The relationship was revealed in tabloids.
According to what Novak said last year, she was only friends with Davis. "I knew that [Sammy] had this crush, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings," she saidTHR.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
However, gossip on Novak and Davis were published in the tabloids. AccordingVanity, this came back toHarry Cohn, an executive infamous by Columbia Pictures, who had shaped Novak's career.
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Davis would have been sought by the crowd.
TheVanity The article reports that Davis was threatened by the crowd on his relationship with Novak. So-called the gangsterMickey Cohen went to see Davis' father,Sammy Davis Sr., and said, "Listen. I had terrible news for you. I just received a Chicago call to hurt Sammy. I tell you what, there is a chance. I'll give him 24 hours. Sammy must get married - for a girl of color. "
It would seem that the threat could be traced in Cohn, who was strongly invested in the success of Novak and did not want his banker to be tarnished by his association with a black man, even a beloved artist. The executive of the studio would have a link with the crowd. Davis' friend,Arthur Silber JR., Said: "When Cohn discovered Kim and Sammy, he put a contract - not to kill him, really, but to break the two legs and turn off his other eye."
Another cohort of Davis',Sy Marsh, said: "Sammy was a few centimeters to be killed."
Davis did what he had been asked.
Davis married quicklyLoray White, a singer he already knew.
"He seated it - he was sitting on a chair and I was sitting on the bed - and he made her a proposal, to marry her for a certain sum of money," said Silber. "She would have all the rights that Mrs. Sammy Davis Jr. would have, but at the end of the year, they would dissolve marriage. She accepted this, and that is what removed the heat."
Novak said she had heard of threats. "This is where I thought, for him," I would better not see him "," she saidTHR.
AccordingVanity, Novak said: "It was a very dangerous relationship at the time - a white woman and a black man, regardless of her status - he simply did not mix publicly. I was suddenly in the eye of A hurricane ... My agent told me my career would be over if I continued to see Sammy. Some of my friends would not even make my phone calls. "
They have seen each other over the years.
After being separated, Davis and Novak were married more than once. AccordingVanity , they gathered when they attended the 1979 Oscars with other friends. According to some information, she visited him in the hospital when he was dying in 1990 at 64. Today, Novak has been retired for a long time. His latest film was 1991 Liebestraum.
