STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — The late Sammy Davis Jr.'s daughter ... Davis' career took off in the 1940s by virtue of his determination, talent and the support of friends like Frank Sinatra.

While Sammy Davis Jr. was headlining at the New Frontier Casino ... and other states during the early days of Las Vegas in the 1940s and’50s. Sammy ranked as the first black performing artist ...

The multitalented Rat Packer Sammy Davis Jr. was born in Harlem in 1925 ... Two of a Kind In the late 1940s, the Will Mastin Trio got a huge break: They were booked as part of a Mickey Rooney ...

By age 10, Sammy Jr. was a tap-dance prodigy, trained and raised by his father, who had custody of the child after he and Elvera Davis divorced. Davis danced professionally until the early 1940s ...

Sammy Davis Jr. was the type of entertainer who would ... the Chi Chi with his uncle and father as a teenager in the early 1940s — one of the first members of the Rat Pack to perform in Palm ...

Elvera Sanchez Davis, 95, a tap dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr., died Sept ... Theater and continued her career into the early 1940s, dancing for six years in the Apollo chorus line.

Garland and Minnelli lived at the house in the mid-1940s with daughter Liza Minnelli ... who sold it in 1955 to Rat Pack entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. During Davis’ stay, musical acts such ...

In the mid-1960s, Sammy Davis Jr. ranked behind only Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali as the most famous Black person in the world. Davis, however, was certainly the most welcome of the ...

The Musical brings to the Broadway stage the extraordinary life and legacy of the legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.. Since Davis's passing in 1990, there has been significant interest from ...

The event spotlighted Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 100th anniversary and his longtime musical connection with Frank Sinatra. Sammy Davis, Jr., also known as Mr. Entertainment, was an award-winning ...