Haygood wrote that Davis did this in order to avoid being entangled in the politics at a time when anti-Cuban sentiments were raging in the U.S.
In his autobiography “Yes I Can,” Sammy Davis Jr. often referred to his mother––who was really his grandmother––Rosa Davis. Wil Haygood in his biography “In Black and White––The Life of Sammy Davis Jrthe gifted entertainer’s mother, Elvera “Baby” Sanchez, is thoroughly and thoughtfully profiled.
Being in the various chorus lines meant that Elvera was a versatile dancer capable of executing all the routines from tap to swing to ‘boogie woogie’. “But her specialty was the soft-shoe,” Haygood said, “a seductive glide across the dance floor in step with the other dancers. The girls in her chorus were doing eight shows a day, and yet, hardly anyone complained. The hours were long, but the work was thrilling.
It was not until 1947, that mother and son got together. But again nothing came of it much as it did with Sammy’s father, who asked for divorce. She told him that the price would “be $10,000.” When her son married May Britt, Elvera was not there unable to take the hastily arranged event seriously. “She stood behind the bar where she worked in Atlantic City,” Haygood noted, “and let an assortment of scenarios flow in and out of her mind about why her son was about to get married.
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