Sammy Davis Jr. group, she said, "You all look like a pack of rats." The nickname caught on, and they were called the Rat Pack, the name of its earlier incarnation led by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who originally made the remark of the "pack of rats" about the group around her husband Bogart. The group around Sinatra made several movies together, including "Ocean's 11" (1960), "Sergeants 3" (1962), and "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (1964), and they performed onstage together in Las Vegas. Davis was a headliner at The Frontier Casino in Las Vegas, but he was required (as were all
Sammy Davis Jr. black performers in the 1950s) to lodge in a rooming house on the west side of the city, instead of in the hotels as his white colleagues did. No dressing rooms were provided for black performers, and they had to wait outside by the swimming pool between acts. Davis and other black artists could entertain but could not stay at the hotels where they performed, gamble in the casinos, or dine or drink in the hotel restaurants and bars. Davis later refused to work at places which practiced racial segregation. In 1964, Davis was starring in "Golden Boy" at night