DAVIS, SAMMY, JR.

DAVIS, SAMMY, JR.Entertainer (8 December 1925 in New York, New York). He came from a show-business family: his father was the lead dancer in Will Mastin's vaudeville touring show, Holiday in Dixieland, and his mother was the lead chorus girl. He began touring with the troupe before he was three years old, at first as a kind of human prop, then as a performer. When the troupe was reduced from twelve performers to three, he toured with the trio...