A rare kinescope of Sammy Davis, Jr., and the Will Mastin Trio performing on The Buick-Berle Show in 1954. In this excerpt from the group’s nightclub act, Davis impersonates Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Vaughn Monroe, Billy Eckstine, Jimmy Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Frankie Laine, and Jerry Lewis:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for December 8, 2010
TT: Almanac
“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
Margaret Drabble, A Summer Bird-Cage