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Hollywood star Jeremy Pope to play Sammy Davis Jr. in upcoming biopic

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The star, who recently earned international recognition for his role in Netflix miniseries Hollywood, is teaming up with writer and director Janet Mock for a biopic on Sammy Davis Jr.

called Scandalous! According to Deadline, the film will chronicle the controversial Romeo and Juliet-esque love story between Davis and Vertigo star Kim Novak in 1957, which resulted in widespread racist backlash from the entertainment industry.

In BBC documentary Sammy Davis Jr – The Kid in the Middle, it was revealed that Harry Cohn, co-founder and president of Colombia, hired mobsters to threaten Davis with blinding his other eye or breaking his legs if he didn’t marry a Black woman within 48 hours.

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