"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)
Lire la suite"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...
Lire la suite"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...
Lire la suite"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 of languidly pouring herself onto settees, or men, was considered almost too sexy...
Lire la suite"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...
Lire la suite"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)
Lire la suite"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...
Lire la suite"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"...
Lire la suite"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)
Lire la suite"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...
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