JSngry Posted May 7, 2004 Report Posted May 7, 2004 The rumors (some general, some quite specific) have been going around for years. I've heard them for at least the last 25 years. The matter also gets a bit of discussion in the revised Ian Carr bio, where it is discussed incionclusively, but with the tone that doing so was a matter of discretion, not of uncertainty. No big deal afaic. After all, the cat WAS a Gemini... Quote
The Mule Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Posted May 7, 2004 How'd my thread about meeting Frances Davis get turned into an argument over whether or not Miles was bi-sexual?! Sheesh! Quote
Christiern Posted May 7, 2004 Report Posted May 7, 2004 How'd my thread about meeting Frances Davis get turned into an argument over whether or not Miles was bi-sexual?! Sheesh! One misplaced "i" did it. Guess the "i" didn't have it. Quote
Jim R Posted May 7, 2004 Report Posted May 7, 2004 How'd my thread about meeting Frances Davis get turned into an argument over whether or not Miles was bi-sexual?! Sheesh! Yeah, and to think I felt guilty for going off on a tangent about schooners! Quote
The Mule Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Posted May 7, 2004 How'd my thread about meeting Frances Davis get turned into an argument over whether or not Miles was bi-sexual?! Sheesh! One misplaced "i" did it. Guess the "i" didn't have it. Yeah, I guess that's what started it, didn't it? Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted May 7, 2004 Report Posted May 7, 2004 The ex-Mrs Davis is featured in that documentary that's aired on A & E a couple of times. Her part is hilarious, especially regarding her "lunch breaks" from dancing in "West Side Story," I think it was. Quote
chris olivarez Posted May 8, 2004 Report Posted May 8, 2004 Miles was linked to J. Edgar Hoover in that notorious biography from a few years back in which it was revealed that J. Edgar was a cross-dresser. Bertrand. Linked to Hoover-how? Quote
BruceH Posted May 9, 2004 Report Posted May 9, 2004 By the way, it's Frances, not Francis. Francis Davis is a jazz writer. You had me fooled there for a second! Bertrand. Me too! If I met Francis Davis, the writer, I could imagine mentioning it here. Quote
Phenomena Posted October 7, 2009 Report Posted October 7, 2009 that is weird she is a hostest at the sunset blvd. hambuger hamlet I just saw her playing a bit part as a maid in "The Party" {1968} with Peter Sellers. Quote
ValerieB Posted October 8, 2009 Report Posted October 8, 2009 five and a half years later and Frances is still at the Hamlet! and she's been there much longer than five and a half years! i remember many decades ago, we never actually thought of Miles as bi-sexual but more as someone who liked to "freak off" with sex and drugs! Quote
bertrand Posted October 8, 2009 Report Posted October 8, 2009 What the hell was I talking about with the J. Edgar Hoover thing? I have no clue what I was thinking. Bertrand. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted October 8, 2009 Report Posted October 8, 2009 i dont understand: how did miles "get his freak on"? Quote
medjuck Posted October 8, 2009 Report Posted October 8, 2009 five and a half years later and Frances is still at the Hamlet! and she's been there much longer than five and a half years! She was there a couple of months ago when my wife and I stopped by for dinner. Quote
sidewinder Posted October 8, 2009 Report Posted October 8, 2009 (edited) What the hell was I talking about with the J. Edgar Hoover thing? I have no clue what I was thinking. Bertrand. Certainly puts the Mati Klarwein back cover art on 'Live Evil' in a fresh light ! Edited October 8, 2009 by sidewinder Quote
mrjazzman Posted October 9, 2009 Report Posted October 9, 2009 Miles Davis' ex-wife, Frances Davis, works as the hostess at the Hamburger Hamlet on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. She's still beautiful and has the body of a dancer. Totally charming woman. She told me that a guy from Tower records on Sunset just gave her a huge poster of FRIDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BLACKHAWK... ...and they're going to hang it in the restaurant. As she described the cover to me (as if I didn't know what it looked like!) she said, "There's Miles and then there's my head giving him this look like, 'Wonder who he's foolin' around with now...'" We both shared a big laugh at that. She told me she's working on her memoirs and that Columbia Pictures hired her as a consultant on a possible Mile Davis movie, "but that was five years ago" and it didn't seem like that movie was going to happen. She also said that she was considering other opportunities for a movie of her life story. She seemed totally open about who she is and her past with Miles and would probably be happy to chat with anyone about it should they stop by the restaurant. Lovely, lovely woman... If you think she looks good now, you should have seen her when I met her in the early 60's when Miles appeared at Basin Street West on Boradway St in San Francisco. My next door neighbor was friends with Miles and asked me if I wanted to go hear him, I almost fell to the floor while saying "YES", after the set Mr. Velez and I went to Miles's room and there she was in what then was an extremly sexy, sheer (not quite see-through)chifon dress. At one point Miles said to her in that famous raspy voice of his "go put some dam clothes on". I was 15 or 16 at the time and was in total, shocking BLISS. 45 years later, I remember it as if it happened last night.............. Quote
papsrus Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 What the hell was I talking about with the J. Edgar Hoover thing? I have no clue what I was thinking. Bertrand. Quote
CJ Shearn Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 (edited) that's a cool story that you met Frances Davis. Do most of the patrons know who she is? Edited October 10, 2009 by CJ Shearn Quote
Dan Gould Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 that's a cool story that you met Frances Davis. Do most of the patrons know who she is? Let me guess the answer: do you think most patrons know, let alone care who was married to Miles Davis? Quote
CJ Shearn Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 well, she's somewhat famous, no need to be rude about it Dan. Quote
Dan Gould Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 I wasn't being rude, I was being honest. What exactly makes her somewhat famous? A couple of obscure jazz LP covers and inspiring a Miles tune? I can't find her on Wikipedia, and I don't see any sites on Google. She was a dancer and occasional actress who was married to Miles. Now she works as a hostess in a restaurant. Some people know who she is but why do you think the general clientele of the restaurant would know her? Quote
CJ Shearn Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 maybe you're right, at least they'd have heard of Miles. Quote
bgugg Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 A few weeks ago, I went to an african restaurant in Paris one of the 27 ? ex-wives of Fela Kuti runs. Big photography of both together on the wall. She was and still is a beauty and she looks like a charming lady but unfortunately the mafé was the worst I'de ever eaten. Awful meat and oily, oily in the extreme ... BTW, music was OK. No Fela but at least Seun Kuti. Quote
ValerieB Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 that's a cool story that you met Frances Davis. Do most of the patrons know who she is? Let me guess the answer: do you think most patrons know, let alone care who was married to Miles Davis? exactly what i was thinking. and i don't think it's "rude" thinking, just realistic! Quote
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