# Celebrities You've Met **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-youve-met/197972 "2003-08-27T14:09:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 179
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-youve-met/197972/179 "2010-08-10T23:05:44Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@Stoid](#): > > > > Grew up spending time at his house, sleeping over with his kids, went to Disneyland with him, was on the cover of Jet with him in a news photo from his grandmoher’s funeral, had very close relationships with his stepmother and father when I was a child, was on the set watching him film his big scene in Sweet Charity: \*\*Sammy Davis, Jr. > > That is so neat! I’d love to see the Jet cover- which issue was it? They’re all online. > > **Edit:** Actually, [this is the Jet article, not cover, dealing with his grandmother’s death](http://books.google.com/books?id=2LgDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA44&dq=Jet%20magazine%20Sammy%20Davis%20Jr.%20Grandmother&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false). This can’t be what you were talking about, unless you’re a large, older black man or woman. OH MY FUCKING GOD I COULD KISS YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW!!! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER!!! [WOOHOO!!!](http://books.google.com/books?id=2LgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=Jet+magazine+Sammy+Davis+Jr.+Grandmother+Rita+Davis+Jerry+Ford&hl=en&ei=TdphTOjfMpGesQOgn_jCCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) CHECK IT OUT…OVER TO THE LEFT, THAT’S ME AND MY OLDER SISTER KATEE!!! (And so it’s not the cover… I was 8, my memory was imperfect) The woman in the big white hat identified as “Rita Davis” was known to me as “Pee Wee” and she’s sitting next to her husband, Sam Davis, Sr., who was known to me as Daddy Sam. AWESOME!!! I LOVE YOU!!! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-youve-met/197972)._