Word: eartha
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Eartha is her real name. She was born 24 years ago on her family's cotton farm near Columbia, S.C. "My parents had a hard time for a couple of years, but the year I came along they had a good crop, so they decided to name me after the earth." Her mother took her to New York after her father died, and at 16 she surprised herself by winning a scholarship to Katherine Dunham's dance school. She had bit parts (dancing and some singing) in three Dunham shows, but in the midst of a European tour...
...connoisseur was Orson Welles, who called her "the most exciting woman in the world," cast her as Helen of Troy in a Paris production of his own version of Faust. The show traveled to Germany as An Evening with Orson Welles, was soon being dubbed "an evening with Eartha Kitt." Last year she even got a letter from Winston Churchill. She was singing...
Keep Them Guessing. Eartha returned to the U.S. six months ago, and now, with her role in New Faces and her after-the-show nightclub stint, is as busy as she has ever been in her life...
Recordings are sure to come, but so far she and the record companies don't agree on the songs she ought to sing. To sell the most records, they tell her, she ought to go to work on songs like Wheel of Fortune and Cry. Eartha is reluctant, feels they aren't her type...
...That's the problem," says Eartha. "Nobody is able to put a definite type on me. All I can do is keep them guessing. I'm a liberal artist...