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"She can play with your romantic senses like a tigress with a ball of wool - enticing you and then pushing you away; tempting you and then turning her back on you".
Peter Hammond, "The Romantic Eartha" (1962)
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"A staid member of the House of Lords shook his head and remarked in a dazed voice she was 'an arrangement designed to unhinge men's minds'. [...] And the Maharajah of Cooch Behar summed up the Earth-rized feelings of most men when he 'bayed' (in the words of a bemused writer) that he was 'utterly destroyed' by this seething young enchantress!"
Duncan McDougald, Jr., "That Bad Eartha" (1958)
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"This is the singer, dancer, and actress whom Orson Welles proclaimed 'the most exciting woman in the world'; and whom her one-time beau Porfirio Rubiosa, the legendarily well-endowed society playboy, called 'fire and ice' ".
James Gavin, "Heavenly Eartha" (2002)
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"Eartha was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 28th, 1929, the daughter of a black mother, white father and Cherokee grandmother".
Ossie Dales, "Purrfect" (2000)
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"Eartha Kitt! She appeared to flash out of nowhere in 1952 as the most exotic performer since Josephine Baker (and I add Yma Sumac, peruvian singer of 50's) and within about three minutes - the time it took to absorb C'est si bon - she was the most famous new face of the day. The microphone adored her hot brown voice with the purring vibrate like an itch at the centre. Her songs (sex, love and money in varying proportions) threw a dash of French mustard over a contemporary hit-parade littered with cold cuts. In a word she had style. But it had taken a long time to acquire".
Colin Butler, "At her very best" (1981)
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