Playboy Interview: Sammy Davis Jr.
December, 1966
Playboy Interview: Sammy Davis Jr.Whether Sammy Davis Jr., as so often billed, is really "the greatest entertainer in the world" may be open to debate, but even his critics would admit that no one has worked harder--nor overcome more hardships and handicaps--to earn that appellation. Literally a child of show business (his parents, Sammy and Elvera Davis, toured with a vaudeville troupe headed by Will Mastin, whom he called his uncle), Sammy made his stage debut at the age of one and b...