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"Never one to take herself too seriousely, she has the ability to still play the sex kitten in advanced middle age without appearing ridiculous or making her adoring public feel uncomfortable."
Tony Watts, "Sentimental Eartha" (1970)
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"Even today, she still gives a sexy performance whether on screen or on stage and it takes a special performer to be able to do that in her seventies. On one recent TV appearance, she was wearing a figure hugging creation which was little more than a mesh, and theree wasn't much, if anything, underneath. She has always been able to get away with it, and always will."
Martin Hutchinson, "the Eartha Kitt collection" (2000)
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"Who, over the last fifty years, would you put on the list of the sexiest women: Monroe, Dietrich, and Bardot for sure, Jane Russell, and Sophie Loren too. And who in that period could lay claim to the fame of a 'gay icon'? Well Shirley Bassey, Dorothy Squires, Alma Cogan and definitely Judy Garland. But there is one, and only one, who walk away with both titles. Not for nothing did Orson Welles describe her in the Fifties as the world's most exciting woman, and when her records were heard in the gay clubs the world over in the Eighties, the name on everyon's lips was the same - Eartha Kitt.
Ossie Dales, "Purrfect" (2000)
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"It had to be said that the voice of Eartha Kitt is an acquired taste as it doesn't suit
everyone. It has a throaty quality that just oozes sex appeal. That, and her habit oflanguidly pouring herself onto settees, or men, was considered almost too sexy for herTV audiences. Also her feline mannerisms: the guttural purr or growl, and her 'come to bed' eyes made her a sexual icon".Martin Hutchinson, "the Eartha Kitt collection" (2000)
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"Guaranteed to make the most of any potential double entendre in the most words of a song, she is capable of making the most innocent of remarks seem like an irrestistible invitation to sin; definitely an artist to outrage the fundamentalist, self-appointed guardians of public morality in both Britain and the United States."
Tony Watts, "Sentimental Eartha" (1970)
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