Altovise Davis

Altovise Joanne Davis (Template:Nee Gore; August 30, 1943 – March 14, 2009)<ref name="LA" /><ref name="Death" /> was an American entertainer, best known for being Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife.

Early life

Altovise Joanne Gore was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

A life member of The Actors Studio,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Gore worked during the 1960s as a chorus-line dancer in various musical shows both in London and on Broadway.Template:Citation needed

In the 1970s and 1980s, she made a few guest appearances in major TV series such as Charlie's Angels and CHiPs and minor roles in films such as Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Boardwalk (1979), and Can't Stop the Music (1980).

Both she and her husband, Sammy Davis Jr., were frequent panelists on the 1970s television game show Tattletales.Template:Citation needed

Personal life

In 1968, Gore began a relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. They were married on May 11, 1970, by Reverend Jesse Jackson and adopted a son, Manny, in 1989.<ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> The couple remained married until Sammy Davis Jr.'s death in 1990.<ref name="LATimes-1990-08-08">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Long saddled with tax problems following the death of her husband, Altovise Davis was included in 2008 on the California Franchise Tax Board's list of the top 250 delinquent taxpayers, with $2,708,901.75 in unpaid personal income tax.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Death

Davis died of complications from a stroke on March 14, 2009, at age 65 in Los Angeles.<ref name="LA" /><ref name="Death" /> She is interred in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to her husband.Template:Citation needed

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Welcome to Arrow Beach	Deputy Molly
1976	Pipe Dreams	Lydia
1977	Kingdom of the Spiders	Birch Colby
1979	Boardwalk	Mrs. Bell
1980	Can't Stop the Music	Alicia Edwards
1986	The Perils of P.K.		(final film role)

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