Sammy Davis Jr. lost his eye as the result of a horrific car accident near las Vegas, I think. He was driving to Los Angeles and apparently another suddenly appeared in his lane for the orher direction; he tried to swerve and struck the other vehicle. The impact drove his head into the steering wheel; Cadilacs had a cone in the middle of the steering wheels then and his I think his eye was rammed into the cone.
Anyway, sometime later, while dating Kim Novak on the sly, he was supposedly visited by some of Harry Cohn's mob bullyboys who warned him to stay from her or risk losing his good eye. Back then, if it had been revealed that a white female movie star was romantically involved with a black guy, her career would've gone down the toilet.
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
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