Colman Domingo is set to produce his feature straightforwardorial debut with “Scandalous,” a period drama about the 1950’s romance between movie star Kim Novak and singer Sammy Davis Jr., and the bigoted scruminuscule that the pair faced once their afiminentire came to weightless. Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson are in talks to carry out the two directs.
Miramax is toiling to speedy track the project, which remains in punctual stages of enlargement. Producers have hopes to shoot next year after Domingo and Sweeney have finished filming the third season of HBO’s “Euphoria.”
As it went, Novak and Davis first combineed when they both materializeed as guests on “The Steve Allen Show” in 1956. The two progressd to encounter, with Davis making visits to the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” during the next year. They met aget at a Thanksgiving charity ball in California during the year, which led to the pair spfinishing the holidays together. Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, where Novak was under lessen, voiced unease about their relationship.
The romance exploded into the uncover eye when a Chicago gossip columnist begined an account of Davis and Novak’s relationship in 1958, claiming the two could soon be wed. Novak rerentd a uncover denial of the account. Days tardyr, Davis wed Loray White, a Bdeficiency chorus girl. The couple’s union lasted one year. Novak wed white actor Ricchallenging Johnson in 1965. The two tardyr divorced, with Novak wed Robert Malloy in 1976. The pair remained together until Malloy’s death in 2021. Novak is now 91 years elderly. Davis died in 1990 at the age of 64.
Deadline was first to alert recents of the project.
