The day of his beating, Davis didn’t want to do his act-to “go out there and smile at people who despised me,” as he told Playboy interviewer Alex Haley in 1966.īut I made myself do it anyhow. At night he put on shows for his comrades. Then they poured turpentine over him.ĭavis was both soldier and entertainer. They beat Davis until he almost passed out. Some lowlife bigots beat him up and wrote “coon” in white paint across his forehead, and “I’m a n*gger” across his chest. He was once beaten up for looking at his white female commanding officer while she was giving him orders. When Davis first started out in vaudeville-working with his father and an uncle-he claimed he never came up against any racism. He worked hard he said because he was a short black one-eyed Jew. Davis was also one of the hardest working men in show business. One of the greatest all-round stage and screen entertainers. was a singer, a dancer, an actor, a comic, and an impressionist.
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