"Fifty years after she came to RCA, Kitt is still basically a cafe artist, not an arena superstar like Madonna. (In 1987, Madonna raided the turf of a senior Material Girl by recording Santa baby . Kitt was not impressed. Asked to comment, that prowling,...
Lire la suite"When she dropped her head and walked straight at you, it was like getting hit with a black-jack". Ed Sullivan, présentateur d'une émission culte dans les années 60-70 notamment, FSU Black History Month Picture Gallery
Lire la suite" 'When she is making a record', says RCA musical director Henri Rene, 'she never makes a grand entrance. She just sneaks into the sound studio in slacks and sits in a corner, or else gets up and prowls around, talking to the musicians, trying to play...
Lire la suite"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...
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