Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment

List Price: ~~$14.95~~
Our Price: $8.13
You Save: $6.82 (46%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.00 (click here)
Category: VHS Video
See more movie releases

Compare Prices for Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment

Buy this VHS video movie at online store in your country
Canada

VHS Tape Cover Information

Actor: Biography
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 50 minutes
Release Date: 1998-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Studio: A&E Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment

Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars

An excellent biopic of the greatest entertainer this world has ever seen... or is likely to. It looks not only at his considerable talents but also looks inside the man too and reveals some of his hidden demons. It even suggest what it was that drove him to be the best. If you're a fan, or even if you're not, this is a must see.

Write your own review

Summary of Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment

Saga of one of show biz's most talented and popular performers. Traces his long career from tap-dancing days in vaudeville--he was a smash at the tender age of 3--to his many triumphs in nightclubs, movies, and on Broadway. Covers the story of the auto accident which cost him an eye, and his sensational marriage to May Britt.

They didn't call him "Mr. Entertainment" for nothing. Everyone of Gen-X age--or younger--should pop this baby in the VCR to see what made a star a star before postproduction technology could bail out the "talent." Filled with clips that date to the 1930s, the producers were smart enough to let them speak for themselves. There's Davis tap dancing away as a little boy, showcased in footage from a 1964 television special, and appearing on TV talk shows in another era, with his cigarette smoke swirling about him. There's no shortage of intriguing details--he helped break the color barrier in Las Vegas, had "Frank Sinatra envy" despite considering the fellow Rat Packer a close friend, postponed his wedding to his second wife until after JFK's inaugural (because she was white), and once tried to commit suicide by driving off a cliff. Punctuating the human drama is a lot of sensational footage, including his last public performance, when, although weakened by chemotherapy, he still went toe-to-toe with Gregory Hines, another tap-dance great, and won. --Valerie J. Nelson

Documentary VHS Video

VHS Video Movies

Movies most talked about in the wham of sam

Biography - Sammy Davis Jr.: Mr. Entertainment
A&E Home Video; Release date: 1998-11-11; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $8.13
Price in other shops: ~~$14.95~~

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Wil Haygood
Knopf; Published: 2003-10-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: ~~$26.95~~

Jr. Sammy Davis - Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story
Release date: 1999-11-09; Music CD
Best price: $36.00
Price in other shops: ~~$59.98~~

Summit: In Concert
Release date: 1999-02-23; Music CD
Best price: $33.99

I've Gotta Be Me: The Best of Sammy Davis, Jr. on Reprise Image

Jr. Sammy Davis - I've Gotta Be Me: The Best of Sammy Davis, Jr. on Reprise
Release date: 1996-10-08; Music CD
Best price: $10.89
Price in other shops: ~~$13.98~~

The Decca Years
Release date: 1990-10-01; Music CD
Best price: $14.45

Jr. Sammy Davis - Sammy and Friends
Release date: 2000-01-18; Music CD
Best price: $9.75
Price in other shops: ~~$18.98~~

Jr. & Count Basie Sammy Davis - Our Shining Hour
Release date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Jr. Sammy Davis - That's All!
Release date: 2001-06-19; Music CD
Best price: $8.49
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Jr. Sammy Davis - At the Cocoanut Grove
Release date: 2001-06-19; Music CD
Best price: $7.74
Price in other shops: ~~$11.98~~

Similar VHS Movies

Biography - Carol Burnett (A&E DVD Archives)
Release date: 2005-07-26; DVD
Best price: $8.37
Price in other shops: ~~$24.95~~

Gonna Do Great Things : The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Gary Fishgall
Published: 2003-10-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.58
Price in other shops: ~~$26.00~~

Tap (Widescreen Edition)
Sony; Release date: 2006-08-29; DVD
Best price: $7.63
Price in other shops: ~~$14.94~~

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Burt Boyar
HarperEntertainment; Published: 2007-02-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.44
Price in other shops: ~~$49.95~~

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Wil Haygood
Knopf; Published: 2003-10-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops: ~~$26.95~~

Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $37.02
Price in other shops: ~~$59.98~~

Sammy: The Autobiography of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Sammy Davis, Burt Boyar, Jane Boyar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2000-12-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.74
Price in other shops: ~~$28.00~~