Word: eartha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songstress Wright had done some singing in her high-school choir, but nothing like this. She threw herself into Raincoat like a pro, clipped out one or two phrases with the sting of an Eartha Kitt, brooded most of the time in very womanly tones indeed. The song caught on quickly in Canada and crossed the border (on the Unique label). Last week it was making news as a potential bestseller...
...week, and their subjects hardly knew where to pay homage first. At the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, demure Dorothy Dandridge rambled through her slinky-but-sweet songs about love and how to enjoy it. A few blocks away, in the downstairs den known as the Copacabana, petite Eartha Kitt took her listeners on a quadrilingual (English, French, Spanish, Turkish) tour over much the same ground, sticking mostly to its back alleys...
...Eartha Kitt, 27, did not seem the type to ask people to do what they wished-only what she wished. Where Dorothy shimmered in white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl...
Freud & Voodoo. Dorothy grew up in a family of entertainers, bowed in Cleveland at the age of five in a family act. Eartha was a South Carolina farmer's daughter, and long before she reached Manhattan's Katherine Dunham dance school, at 16, she knew poverty and had a brush with voodoo (she still recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy...
Eight minutes after the curtain went up on the 81st performance of the Broadway hit play Mrs. Patterson (TIME, Dec. 13), the show's star, feline Warbler-Actress Eartha Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked...