Davis was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance.The show featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. In 1966, he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. #Christmas themed interracial gay midget porn tv While Davis's career slowed in the late 1960s, his biggest hit, ' The Candy Man', reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1972, and he became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname 'Mister Show Business'.
ĭavis's popularity helped break the race barrier of the segregated entertainment industry.
He did however have a complex relationship with the black community and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. I'm a one-eyed Negro who's Jewish.' This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in many articles. Īfter reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death in 1990.