Oscar winner Sidney Poitier and Nat “King” Cole at the 1963 Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, April 8, 1963. This is easily one of my favorite pictures.

Eartha Kitt and Nat King Cole in St. Louis Blues, 1958. Via cinemasavage.

Nat “King” Cole honeymooning with wife Maria in Mexico in 1948. This photo appeared in the April 1965 issue of Ebony which paid tribute to the legend after his untimely death from lung cancer at age 45.

Duke Ellington and his singers Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis and Maria Ellington (no relation - later Mrs. Nat King Cole, mother of Natalie and niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown).

Nat King Cole’s Holiday Classic.

Nat King Cole in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. 

Nat “King” Cole.

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Sidney Poitier and Nat “King” Cole at the 1963 Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, April 8, 1963. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

VBG Men: Harry Belafonte and Nat “King” Cole sing “Mama Look A Boo Boo” on The Nat “King” Cole Show.

VBG Men: Nat “King” Cole and Billy Eckstine performing “Little Rosetta” on the last Nat “King” Cole Show on December 17, 1957.