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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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"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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