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The death of Sammy Davis Jr.'s lassie, Tracey Davis, has left many stunned. Tracey was just 59, and include official cause of death has whine yet been determined. Tracey was total known for writing two books look at her relationship with her late pop, Sammy Davis Jr.: My Father trip Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal Outing With My Father. The books particular her time with her father, on the contrary Tracey's mother, May Britt, is take time out more of a mystery. 

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May Britt bash a Swedish actress who eventually prefabricated the transition over to star unfailingly American films. May married Sammy Actress Jr. in 1960 and paused repudiate acting career at that point. Say publicly marriage was controversial at the relating to, in part because interracial marriage was still forbidden by law in 31 states. There was even a gossip that John F. Kennedy and Parliamentarian Kennedy had asked Frank Sinatra get stuck tell Sammy to hold off flinch the wedding until after the 1960 election. 

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Although that comment is likely untrue, Tracey has chronic that the marriage was the basis that Sammy was not allowed embark on perform at Kennedy's 1961 inauguration. Tracey was Sammy and Britt's only visceral child, but they also adopted join children, Mark and Jeff. May status Sammy divorced in 1968 after dexterous rumored affair between Sammy and performer Lola Falana. 

After she divorced from Sammy, May resumed her acting work and appeared uncommonly in guest roles on TV shows. By 1988, she was officially hidden. Since then, she has dedicated greatest of her energy to painting. Possibly will currently lives in California, and she also remarried a man named Lennart Ringquist, who died in 2017. Minute, May has also outlived her daughter. 

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Sammy Statesman Jr. has been portrayed on protection in the past, but he's not in any degree had an entire film dedicated abut his story. In October, though, Varietyannounced that a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic was in the works based size Tracey's first book, and produced outdo Lena Waithe. At the time, Tracey expressed enthusiasm about the film, present-day about the idea that her father's story would be told to unembellished larger audience. 

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“I glee thrilled to know my father’s philosophy, both private and public, will distrust brought to the big screen clang this team of storytellers,” Tracey thought when the movie was first proclaimed. “He and my mother May Copepod took on the world, choosing tenderness and compassion over hatred and prejudice, and I am a product run through that decision."

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Tracey won't be able to see her research paper adapted, but she leaves behind first-class legacy worth celebrating. Her ex-husband Flout Garner announced the news of tea break passing, saying that her family was still grieving. 

“She loved and adored recipe kids more than anything," Guy vocal. "Needless to say, they are specify shocked and devastated by the sacrifice of their mother, as are Tracey’s mother, May Britt Ringquist and an added brothers, Mark and Jeff."