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Eartha Kitt, 81, remembered.....

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While most knew her for her voice and music, her acting range spanned movies, stage, and of course, TV. One role of which was her Catwoman part in the 1960s Batman series. Ironically, Kitt passed today, Christmas, when one of her signature songs, 'Santa Baby', would be played regularly.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_en_ot/obit_eartha_kitt

A pic can be seen at the link of Kitt performing last year at the Cafe Carlyle in NYC.

Cheers, Eartha...you'll be missed. Meow!!! 8)
 
Eartha played a feisty yet sexy and seductive Catwoman.

We will miss you Eartha baby!
 
I'll best remember her for speaking out against the Viet Nam war - right in front of Lady Bird Johnson! It caused shockwaves, and it hurt her career for awhile, but it also took courage and it needed to be done.

Way to go, Eartha! An eternal "thumbs up" from me.
 
RicoGregg said:
I'll best remember her for speaking out against the Viet Nam war - right in front of Lady Bird Johnson! It caused shockwaves, and it hurt her career for awhile, but it also took courage and it needed to be done.

Way to go, Eartha! An eternal "thumbs up" from me.
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Eartha's denunciation of the Vietnam War not only hurt her career, it triggered investigations and harassment by the FBI and CIA. She went into self-imposed exile in Europe for about a decade, where she was able to work, and was appreciated.
 
I also think it's ironic--yet appropriate--that
she died on Christmas, since "Santa Baby" seems
to be played more often at Christmastime these days.

Orson Welles once said she was the sexiest woman
he'd ever seen (or words to that effect).

BTW, did anyone know that she made her debut in
the stage revue "New Faces Of 1952," which also
introduced America to the "center square," Paul Lynde?

While Julie Newmar will always be, to me, the definitive
Catwoman, Eartha did a pretty good job. But I think she
alienated a lot of people (and by 1968, I don't know why,
except that she did it in front of Lady Bird Johnson) with her
opposition to the Vietnam War. That hardly put her in an
exclusive club; Merv Griffin once said that he could find only
two pro-war guests: Bob Hope and John Wayne.

But we'll still have Eartha every Christmastime. That's not
too shabby.
 
You're correct bpatrick - that many celebrities denounced the Vietnam War. ..but remember that timing is everything. Though her obits are not specific as to the year, it appears that her denunciation was early on - maybe 65 or 66. As you noted, she made the statement at a White House performance in front of Ladybird, so LBJ was President. Gathering by the outrage it generated, she was probably one of the first. By the late Johnson Administration (67-68) many more people had turned on the war. A celebrity denouncing the war in the late 60s would not have caused much outrage since it was commonplace...though saying it in front of the First Lady probably would have generated press coverage in any year.
 
"NBC Nightly News" had a rather lengthy review
of Eartha's career Thursday night. They showed
the invitation to a White House luncheon dated
January 18, 1968, which is when she voiced her
opposition to the Vietnam war in front of Lady Bird.
Perhaps she had been speaking out as early as '65
or '66, but the reaction to this, and LBJ's possible ire
(and most people at the time, while perhaps agreeing
with her, considered it a breach of protocol), did put
her career on ice for a time.

Ironically, the Tet offensive came just days later, and
that seemed to justify her remarks. I'll keep it at that,
lest this gets moved to "Take It Outside."
 
Studio20 said:
Hmm..Wonder who Emperor-in-waiting Kuzco will have to face off now that Eesma has passed?
R I P Ms Kitt.
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Agreed! She certainly had a prominent role on that Disney set of the Emperor's New Groove!
 
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