Eartha Kitt

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Diva,diva...Miss Kitt dancer,singer & actress=living legend. Photo Credit:Halsman

 

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One of my favorite songs which I think is best performed by her "C'est Si Bon"! Here she chats up all the finer things in life with her unique manner!

 

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Press for her film "Anna Lucasta" 1958. Photo Credit:John Springer

 

[Hanne]

'Santa Baby' by Eartha Kitt is one of my favorite Christmas songs

 

[Hanne]

Funny Eartha..
Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil (Live Kaskad 1962)

 

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I love those two as well..see the range in each of them! She has such personality & originality! And I can really relate to 'I Want to Be Evil'...jokes!

 

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More from the Halsman session!

 

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Possibly my favorite Eartha cover Tempo magazine 1955. Photo Source:scanned by me

 

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Eartha in the 50s. Photo Credit:Arthur Rothstein & Bettmann archive

 

[TheKiwi]

I love her! She had such a uniquely beautiful face as well as voice!

 

[SomethingElse]

She's eternal. Here's her site link: http://www.earthakitt.com/ And her filmography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/

In an era where women of color had a vertical battle in any industry, she carved amazing inroads with incredible professionalism. A truly heroic woman with a classic rags to riches life story!

"An illegitimate child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina, the daughter of a white dirt farmer and a black Cherokee mother. Given away by her mother, she arrived in Harlem at age nine, and at 15 she quit high school to work in a Brooklyn factory. As a teenager, Kitt lived in friends' homes and in the subways. By the 1950s, however, she had sung and danced her way out of poverty and into the spotlight: performing with the Katherine Dunham troupe on a European tour, soloing at a Paris night club and becoming the toast of the Continent. Orson Welles called her "the most exciting girl in the world". She speaks out on hard issues and plays no favorites; at one point, she drew flak from blacks by working throughout South Africa and reveling in her treatment there as an honorary white."

By Tom Weaver for IMDB

 

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She did break some ground...lots of them did Lena,Dorothy,Diahann,etc great multi-talented beauties. But unlike them,I just wish she wouldn't have been so capricious about race relations in the beginning.

 

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Miss Kitt in the 50s scanned by me. Photo Credit:Bettmann

 

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The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection Fall 2006. Photo Source:getty

 

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The diva on stage(1961). Photo Credit:Bettmann

 

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She rocks in this bold & daring version on 'C'est Si Bon(1952)' in the film "New Faces".

 

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Eartha in the 50s. Photo Credit:Richard Miller & MPTV

 

[longlegsue]

I adore her spunk !

 

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I adore her spunk !

Me tooB)! Eartha in the 50s,credit Bettmann. Photos Source:scanned by me

 

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Eartha relaxing with one of her kittens,scanned by me. Photo Credit:Johnson publications