Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sammy Davis Jr. and Anton Szandor LaVey The mood in hell was light. All smiles and hugs, Sammy Davis Jr. was in high spirits as he ...

It was four days until opening night, and the star of the show who many hoped would make history was missing. Sammy Davis Jr., whose ascension in Hollywood helped break racial barriers in the ...

A century ago, on Dec. 8, 1925, Sammy Davis, Jr., was born, and the world of show business has never seen anyone like him, before or since. “Sammy Davis Jr. was a light you couldn’t look away from,” ...

When I was a kid, I was Sammy Davis Jr. before I was anyone else. I started my entertainment career as a tap dancer. That was what led to my first appearance on television, in Philadelphia on KYW-TV.

Marking Sammy Davis Jr.'s birthday highlights the sweeping cultural shift sparked by an artist whose versatility and visibility reshaped the landscape of modern entertainment. When the calendar turns ...

She starred in such films as 'The Blue Angel' and 'Murder, Inc.,' but Fox declined to renew her contract after she and the legendary entertainer got engaged in 1960. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Often ...

The entertainer, who would have turned 100 this month, reinvented himself by starring in the musical version of Clifford Odets’s prizefighting drama “Golden Boy.” The entertainer, who would have ...

For what would have been his 100th birthday, PEOPLE spoke to some of Sammy Davis Jr.'s former friends and colleagues Don Smith/Radio Times via Getty For what would have been his 100th birthday, PEOPLE ...