Eartha Kitt, the singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become a symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died from colon cancer. She was 81.
Bewitching Entertainer Eartha Kitt, 81 Article | Eartha Kitt, 81, whose purring sensuality, saucy seductiveness and indomitable determination helped her climb from Southern cotton fields to singing stardom and world celebrity, died Dec. 25.
