Eartha Kitt died today. Seductive U.S. singer Eartha Kitt dies at 81

Slinky, sensuous and cat-like, Kitt described herself as a “sex kitten” and used her seductive purr to charm audiences across the world.

Actor-director Orson Welles once called Kitt “the most exciting woman alive”

Everyone described her as a Sex Kitten and I’d say Orson was right.

“She loved cabaret performances,” Freedman said. “If there was ever an opportunity to do a small intimate venue with about 150 people, that was always her preference.”

She always had to be herself.

In an interview with The Times of London in April Kitt described her approach to performing by saying: “I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt … I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.”

Kitt was born to a black-Indian mother and a white father on a plantation in South Carolina in 1927. She once described herself as “that little urchin cotton picker from the South, Eartha Mae” and often spoke of a tough childhood in the impoverished segregated South. She was often harassed for being light-skinned before being sent to live with an aunt in New York City.

But Kitt’s life in New York also was marred by abuse and poverty until she got her start as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut in “Casbah” in 1948. On television she was perhaps best known for her role as the sexy Catwoman in the 1960s U.S. TV series “Batman.”

C’est Si Bon
I Want To Be Evil
Just An Old Fashioned Girl
I Love Men And they loved her.
I think I’ll watch some more videos.

Update I forgot the acting. The movies “Anna Lucasta” and “St. Louis Blues” are great.

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