Posted on 12/25/2008 2:03:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Edited on 12/25/2008 2:09:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A family friend says Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died. She was 81.
Andrew Freedman says Kitt died Thursday of colon cancer and was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
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RIP, Eartha.
I don’t recall “Fever” or “Big Spender” on network television.
I don’t recall “Fever” or “Big Spender” on network television.
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I do but I am a few years older than you, I remember when they were new releases. Peggy Lee singing Fever on tv had my young hormones stirring.
They had TV back then? Was it on the Dumont Television Network?
“They had TV back then? Was it on the Dumont Television Network?”
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Actually NBC, but we didn’t have electricity so we had to watch it by candlelight 80)
I checked your about page and you say you were born in 1950 so I am only six years older than you.
Even her protest of the Vietnam War was not aimed at the troops,quite the opposite.LBJ was a lying skunk.I served in Vietnam(1968-69)and Eartha Kitt never got me angry like Jane Fonda who openly consorted with the enemy and committed acts against US troops.
All Eartha Kitt did was state her opinion-something the Constitution protects.
Anyway she was a great performer and a unique character who will be missed.
I hope I am alive to see Jane Fonda’s obituary.I doubt it,but one never knows.
Good for her! I long for the day when we all "self-identify" as "Earthling."
Yep, that'll be great, just as long as any "non-Earthings" don't identify us as lunch... ("It's a cookbook!"... /g)
Yeah, there's always that risk, isn't there ...
I miss “Mr. Fingers” myself.
That's one of my favorite performances. RIP Miss Kitt.
She joins James Brown and Dean Martin as great entertainers who passed on Christmas Day. Not to forget the great comedian WC Fields.
In that case, I'd tell them that, "I live to serve." (IOW, serve to live!) ;-)
I was in Vietnam 1971-72. Never heard from Eartha Kitt after the 1968 kerfuffle, but Jane Fonda was in Hanoi at the same time I was flying missions (UH-1H). A few months later she was calling the POWs “hypocrites and liars” when they described their years being tortured.
When la Fonda finally corks off, it’ll make the Wellstone memorial look like a quiet family service.
Speaking of obituaries, a guy walked past a newstand every day only glancing at the headlines. One day the dealer berated him, “You cheapskate, why don’t you just buy a newspaper!?”
“But I’m only interested in reading the obituaries.”
“The obituaries aren’t on the front page!”
“The one I’M looking for will be!!”
;^)
Julie WOW!
A very important six years in the history of television, however. We didn't get TV until I was about seven, and I still vividly remember the first time I saw a neighbor's huge cathedral set with a picture the size of a tea saucer.
We were all in bed before Peggy Lee or Nat came on (we did watch the Sullivan Show, everyone in America did.) I didn't see, or at least don't recall ever seeing Elvis on the Sullivan show.
I think it must have been 1954 when we got our first TV. It was a Crosley fifteen inch console. For some reason my parents kept the cabinet long after the TV was pulled out and thrown away. I took a good look at that cabinet one day and realized the woodwork was a quality never to be seen again. You would have to find a professional cabinetmaker and pay a fortune to get something like that now.
My father paid $450. for that television and his gross income as a carpenter back then was something like $200. per MONTH! Looking back I cannot believe he spent that much on it. I remember seeing Elvis on the Sullivan show, I was about twelve at the time. I remember Johnny Cash singing “Teenage Queen”. I remember the first ads for the new Ford Thunderbird and Eartha Kitt was on the screen quite a lot back then.
I remember watching wrestling back when the really big guys weighed 220 but they could move and many of them had been wrestlers back when they actually fought for prize money, they had to learn to fake it for TV.
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