Singer (8-Dec-1925 — 16-May-1990)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Sammy Davis, Jr.; with Jane Boyar; Burt Boyar. Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1965. 630pp.

Sammy Davis, Jr.; with Jane Boyar; Burt Boyar. Why Me? The Sammy Davis, Jr. Story. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1989. 373pp.

Sammy Davis, Jr.. Hollywood in a Suitcase. New York: William Morrow. 1980. 288pp.

Tracey Davis; with Dolores Barclay. Sammy Davis, Jr.: My Father. New York: General Publishing. 1996. 272pp.

Gerald Early (editor). The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001. 589pp. Articles, interviews, excerpts.

Gary Fishgall. Gonna Do Great Things: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.. Simon & Schuster. 2003. 448pp.

Richard Gehman. Sinatra And His Rat Pack: The Irreverent, Unbiased Uninhibited Book About Frank and "The Clan". New York: Belmont Books. 1961. 220pp.

Wil Haygood. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2003. 528pp.

Lawrence J. Quirk; William Schoell. The Rat Pack: The Hey-Hey Days of Frank and the Boys. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company. 1998. 352pp.

Arthur Silber, Jr.. Sammy Davis, Jr.: Me And My Shadow: A Biographical Memoir. Seven Locks Press. 2003. 357pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

6. Wikipedia [link]

7. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

8. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.351)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.169)

10. Webster's American Biographies (p.259)

11. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.120)

12. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.132)

13. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.125)

14. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.177)

15. Legends in Their Own Time (p.63)

16. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.322)

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