Colman Domingo’s directorial debut will focus on a love affair between two iconic Hollywood actors
Scandalous for Miramax. The movie will focus on a 1957 love affair between actors Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. Despite reportedly falling hard for one another after meeting on The Steve Allen Show, the relationship was kept under wraps.
A high-profile interracial relationship at such a time could have proved detrimental to both performers’ careers.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Powerful figures in Hollywood were aghast when they heard of the relationship.
This included Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures chief who had Novak under contract. In early 1958, a Chicago gossip columnist wrote a detailed account of the relationship, forcing both performers to issue denials.
Within days of the article hitting newsstands, Davis married a Black chorus girl named Loray White. Scandalous will star Domingo’s Euphoria co-star Sydney Sweeney as Kim Novak.
