Kim Novak | PopCultureQuotes.com

The studio was very much upset by it. I resisted because I didn’t believe that was correct. While people were feeling a certain way, I also felt people needed to change. And I felt that by seeing Sammy and Sammy seeing me, that we could help people understand and accept interracial relationships of any kind.

I was feeling like I was on the edge of being able to help people to be more accepting of all races and relationships of all kinds. I felt I was doing the right thing by doing that. I felt that Sammy and I were at the start of helping people understand that this is not wrong. A man is a man, no matter what skin color he has. A woman is a woman, no matter what skin color she has.

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By: Kim Novak

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During an interview about her career, actress Kim Novak reflects on her romance with legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. It was a relationship that almost cost her career and Davis his life, because of Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn, who was one of Hollywood’s most feared executives at the time.

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The 2023 TCM Cruise sails November 6-11, 2023 from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, Mexico on the Disney Magic cruise ship. The cruise includes appearances by Kim Novak, Elliott Gould, George Chakiris, Ernest Dickerson, Lorna Luft, Wynn Thomas, Andy Marx and Bruce Goldstein, along with TCM hosts Ben Mankiewicz, Jacqueline Stewart, Eddie ….