Product Details
- Starring: Biography
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786304155646
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- Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304155646
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- Label: A&E Home Video
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- Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: A&E Home Video
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- Release Date: 1998-11-11
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- Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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- Title: Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment
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- UPC: 733961104820
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: They didn't call him "Mr. Entertainment" for nothing. Everyone of Gen-X age--or younger--should pop this baby in the VCR to see what made a star a star before postproduction technology could bail out the "talent." Filled with clips that date to the 1930s, the producers were smart enough to let them speak for themselves. There's Davis tap dancing away as a little boy, showcased in footage from a 1964 television special, and appearing on TV talk shows in another era, with his cigarette smoke swirling about him. There's no shortage of intriguing details--he helped break the color barrier in Las Vegas, had "Frank Sinatra envy" despite considering the fellow Rat Packer a close friend, postponed his wedding to his second wife until after JFK's inaugural (because she was white), and once tried to commit suicide by driving off a cliff. Punctuating the human drama is a lot of sensational footage, including his last public performance, when, although weakened by chemotherapy, he still went toe-to-toe with Gregory Hines, another tap-dance great, and won. --Valerie J. Nelson
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