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Jesus, humans are terrible sometimes. "[Actress Kim] Novak and [singer Sammy] Davis first met in 1956 and their romance quietly developed over the following year. Davis regularly visited Novak on the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and the two spent Thanksgiving and Christmas together. But in 1958, their relationship was outed by a gossip columnist, sparking worries at Columbia Pictures that a public backlash against their star Novak for being in an interracial relationship would hurt the studio.

"Novak publicly denied she and Davis were in a relationship, but the Columbia boss, Harry Cohn, hired crime figures to threaten to blind Davis or break his legs unless he married a black woman within 48 hours; just nine days later, Davis married a black woman, the dancer Loray White. The pair never lived together and commenced divorce proceedings nine months later."