Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has acquired rights to the entertainer's life story. By Alex Ben Block Sammy Davis Jr. Driving Car - P 2011 The life story of the late singer, dancer and actor ...

He was a hep-cat, a superstar, an original. “Guess they must need a good show up in heaven,” said Joey Bishop, summing up the unparalleled career of Sammy Davis Jr., who died early on ...

Everything Sammy Davis, Jr. did, he did well. And he did everything. “American Masters,” the PBS anthology of creative lives, makes up a long omission Tuesday with “Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve ...

Sammy Davis, Jr.’s life story is truly one of those important stories that I felt had to be told via film. ... Because the show was so provocative, it wasn’t filmed much in the day, ...

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis’ vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress ...

Director Sam Pollard dives into the 60 years of show business career of the iconic entertainer in 'Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me.' By Deborah Young “I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and ...

Director Sam Pollard’s new film about a 20th century entertainment legend, “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me,” has been wowing audiences — from Harlem to Haifa — with a complex ...

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, airing tonight on PBS’ American Masters series, is the first major documentary to examine the performer’s vast career and his journey for identity through ...

One of the best showbiz biographies in a long while happens to be about Mr. Show Business himself, Sammy Davis, Jr. "In Black and White" does splendid justice to its subject while brilliantly ...

Photo from the Estate of Altovise Davis. The recently released documentary, “Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me,” begins with a clip of Davis performing onstage, in which he tells the audience ...