SAMMY DAVIS JR. & KIM NOVAK LOVE Was Not Enough
Closer US|February 27, 2023
THEIR ROMANCE ATTRACTED OUTRAGE AND DEATH THREATS
SAMMY DAVIS JR. & KIM NOVAK LOVE Was Not Enough

Before his passing in 1990, Sammy Davis Jr. received a visit from Kim Novak at his hospital room. He had dressed up for the occasion in a pair of silk pajamas and a silk robe he’d had brought from his home. “They sat together in his room,” recalled Shirley Rhodes, the wife of Sammy’s music director.

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