Altovise Davis was an American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s third wife. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina as Altovise Joanne Gore, she was raised in Brooklyn, New York. A life member of The Actors Studio, Gore worked during the 1960s as a chorus-line dancer in various musical shows both in London and on Broadway. Her relationship with Sammy Davis, Jr. started in 1968 while they were working in the same show. They were married in a Philadelphia courthouse by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on May 11, 1970 and adopted a son, Manny, in 1989. Sammy Davis, Jr. died from throat cancer on May 16, 1990, five days after their 20th wedding anniversary. [More at Wikipedia]

August 30th, 1943 in Charlotte  /  Died:   Mar 14th, 2009