Eartha Kitt was the personification of the word "fierce," with a six-decades-long career worthy of being lusted over. Or, rather, purred over. Throughout the ensuing decades, which would include ...

Eartha Kitt may not have had nine lives ... John Barry Ryan III, a banking heir, was her lover, as were movie mogul Arthur Loew Jr. and cosmetics giant Charles Revson. But interracial romances ...

With her sultry drawl and feline charisma, the singer and actor oozed sophistication. But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927, had the toughest of childhoods. In History looks at how she ...

Her parents worked on a cotton farm, and named her Eartha because ... In 1950 Kitt developed a solo act at the Paris night club Carroll's, a lesbian haunt run by a former lover of Marlene Dietrich.

Eartha Kitt received more than a welcome from a college dance troupe – she got some personal history. Students of Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., found her birth certificate showing she was ...

Eartha Kitt was a singer and performer from South ... She would play-up to her image as a lover of men but lived much of her life alone, and she worked tirelessly until the end.

Eartha Kitt’s voice practically purred audiences into submission in her music and films. Kitt was an internationally known dancer, singer and stage and film actress. While petite in stature ...

Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress rose from South Carolina cotton fields Eartha Kitt, the American singer, dancer, actress and self-professed "sex-kitten" who has died aged 81, was one of ...

Eartha Kitt could exude icy glamour in stage, film and TV appearances, but offstage she was remarkably warm and down to earth. The longtime Connecticut resident, who died in 2008 at the age of 81 ...

NEW YORK -- 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, a family spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eartha Kitt, who rose from the Southern cotton fields to captivate audiences around the world with sultry performances as a singer, dancer and actress, died on Thursday at ...