{"id":38678,"date":"2023-01-23T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38678"},"modified":"2023-01-29T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T20:30:16","slug":"sammy-davis-jr-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/23\/sammy-davis-jr-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Davis Jr. on the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Davis Jr. was a larger-than-life personality who was a welcome presence on Broadway, in Las Vegas and on television for many years. His film work was somewhat spotty, yet he proved himself as both a musical star in &#8220;Porgy and Bess&#8221; and &#8220;Sweet Charity&#8221; and in serious dramatic roles in &#8220;Anna Lucasta&#8221; and &#8220;A Man Called Adam.&#8221; In this episode of &#8220;The Online Movie Show,&#8221; social media bon vivant Anthony &#8220;Kingfish&#8221; Vitamia returns to the podcast to celebrate Sammy&#8217;s distinctive place on the big screen.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onlinemovieshow\/sammy-davis-jr\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The episode can be heard here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Davis Jr. was a larger-than-life personality who was a welcome presence on Broadway, in Las Vegas and on television for many years. His film work was somewhat spotty, yet he proved himself as both a musical star in &#8220;Porgy and Bess&#8221; and &#8220;Sweet Charity&#8221; and in serious dramatic roles in &#8220;Anna Lucasta&#8221; and &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1532],"tags":[1692,2618],"class_list":["post-38678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-movie-show","tag-anthony-vitamia","tag-sammy-davis-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43792,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions\/43792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}