tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post2624580143821799121..comments2024-03-22T14:48:09.697-04:00Comments on Dell on Movies: The Star-Studded Couple Blogathon: Sammy Davis Jr. and May BrittDellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-33963151317891062282016-04-26T06:39:46.530-04:002016-04-26T06:39:46.530-04:00Thanks! To say it was interesting is a serious und...Thanks! To say it was interesting is a serious understatement. So glad you stopped by. Even happier you got something out of it.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-88392814657821316342016-04-26T04:06:42.070-04:002016-04-26T04:06:42.070-04:00I loved reading this because I learned so much! I ...I loved reading this because I learned so much! I had no idea about him and Kim Novak. I knew about his marriage to May Britt and always assumed it was interesting with the racist climate of that time period but I didn't know any of the details before reading this. This was a great post and a fascinating read!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396689737585318913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-23766479536349733922016-04-25T06:27:02.957-04:002016-04-25T06:27:02.957-04:00You would think Sammy's famous friends would s...You would think Sammy's famous friends would stick for him, but I don't know if they felt they could. After all, they were all trying to play ball with the studios, too. So, while I wish they would have, I get why they didn't.<br /><br />Thanks for hosting a great blogathon.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-52520110772065468502016-04-25T06:23:59.221-04:002016-04-25T06:23:59.221-04:00Joel - Britt deserves a huge amount of credit for ...Joel - Britt deserves a huge amount of credit for simply sticking by her man. I hadn't heard that Evelyn Keyes story, but that's horrible. I had heard of Skelton's comments about the funeral and I laugh every time. The Rabbi's comments are new to me, but they're just as funny.<br /><br />Stephen - An asshole, he most certainly was.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-85289293483827688052016-04-24T22:25:13.035-04:002016-04-24T22:25:13.035-04:00Whoa! I had no idea about any of this, but it is a...Whoa! I had no idea about any of this, but it is a story that needs to be told! Cohn's definitely paying for his sins now!<br /><br />It's a horrible shame Sammy's friends didn't stand up for him. I'm sure he would have stood up for them if the need had risen!<br /><br />Thanks for bringing this relationship to my attention!Phylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08726532398377237606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-22897584620610190822016-04-24T20:45:13.144-04:002016-04-24T20:45:13.144-04:00It is very much to May Britt’s credit that she wit...It is very much to May Britt’s credit that she withstood the onslaught that the studio was capable of unleashing on the couple at that time in history. They were so all encompassing and powerful as evidenced by being able to get the feisty and hugely successful Kim Novak to buckle under.<br /><br />That sort of stuff was par for the course for most of the moguls but Harry Cohn, who had the reputation as the most hated man in Hollywood, was infamous for trying to control the lives of his contract players and destroying careers of performers who displeased him. Evelyn Keyes, best known as Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind and who had a couple of famous husbands herself-John Huston & Artie Shaw, was a successful and rising star when she signed with Columbia in the mid-40’s and Cohn, again an infamous proponent of the casting couch, pursued her ardently but she consistently refused him and he systemically ruined the momentum of her career, refusing to loan her out and relegating her to B’s. By the time her contract expired she was more or less washed up. <br /><br />There are a couple of stories about Cohn’s funeral. The first is that when Red Skelton saw the enormous number of people showing up for Cohn's funeral he said to the people around him "Give the people what they want, and they'll turn out for it!" The other is that when a member of Temple asked the Rabbi to say "one good thing" about Cohn, he paused and said "He's dead"!<br />joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-19250831588334454812016-04-24T13:07:32.468-04:002016-04-24T13:07:32.468-04:00What Cohn did is ridiculous. I will say that at le...What Cohn did is ridiculous. I will say that at least Novak still had a career. Britt's was immediately snuffed out and she only got some semblance of one after she divorced him. Shame.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.com