Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. were forbidden from being together in the 1950's

Story by NikkiSwift.com

In 1957, Rat Packer Sammy Davis Jr. reportedly invited actress Kim Novak, who had just starred in Vertigo, to the Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago to watch him sing, but he didn't get a moment alone with her. So, he asked mutual friend Tony Curtis to set something up. Curtis threw a party and invited them both — Novak and Davis hit it off. 

"I could see right from the beginning that they were getting along in an intense way, and that was the beginning of the relationship," Curtis later told Vanity Fair. Someone at the party called in the hot-couple alert to gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, who wrote this not-at-all blind item: "Which top female movie star (K.N.) is seriously dating which big-name entertainer (S.D.)?" 

According to Vanity Fair, Novak and Davis enjoyed quiet meals and trysts together in a futile attempt to avoid Columbia Pictures' allegedly aggressive and controlling head honcho, Harry Cohn, and his many studio spies. For as great as the '50s were for fashion and film, it was also a super racist time. If news of an interracial relationship came to fruition, Davis and Novak's careers could be over, or worse. To avoid a hit Cohn allegedly ordered through his many Mob connections, Davis was reportedly forced to marry an African-American singer named Loray White. "Davis offered her a lump sum (between $10,000 and $25,000) to marry him and act as his wife," reported the Smithsonian magazine. "She agreed." That put an end to anything he had going with Novak.