Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me - 10th Anniversary Gala Celebration - Manchester, NH
Currier Museum of Art Manchester, NH
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Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me - 10th Anniversary Gala Celebration - Manchester, NH
Gala 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Currier Museum
New England Premiere / Gala Reception Following the Film
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 8:00 PM
Currier Museum, Manchester, NH
In honor of our TENTH Year presenting the New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival we are extending the EARLY BIRD pricing 10 days!!
Admission: $48.00 through March 10, $57.00 after March 10
Director Sam Pollard Documentary, 2018, USA 100 minutes English
This is the first major film documentary to examine Davis's vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America. Sammy Davis, Jr.'s career was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life was complex, complicated, and contradictory. Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory. He was the veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions; he frequently found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America; and he was the most public black figure to embrace Judaism, thereby yoking his identity to another persecuted minority. Featuring new interviews with such luminaries as Billy Crystal, Norman Lear, Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg, and Kim Novak, with never-before-seen photographs from Daviss vast personal collection and excerpts from his electric performances in television, film, and concert, this film explores the life and art of a uniquely gifted entertainer whose trajectory blazed across the major flashpoints of American society from the Depression through the 1980s.
Toronto International Film Festival, Canada 2017
Location
Currier Museum of Art (View)
150 Ash St
Manchester, NH 03104
United States
