Eartha Kitt Is Here To Stay?
‘I am here" says Eartha
Kitt in the June issue of
ESSENCE magazine. “I sur
vived while the people who
contrived against me are eith
er dead or gone. In 19681 was
an international star. Then it
all fell apart." Eartha was
banished from her own coun
try and all because she dared
to speak out against its politi
cal policies.
According to Eartha, it was
the now legendary Lady Bird
luncheon, along with other
LBJ machinations that torpe
doed her career. For a time,
from 1952 till the early sixties
Ms. Kitt was a star, but as the
country and its people went
through changes, Eartha, art
istically, did not. By 1968,
Americans had simply grown
bored with her thins.
Currently starring in “Tim
buktu" on Broadway, Ms. Kitt
is once again the Star, al
though in her own mind she
always was. She speaks of
herself in the same breath
with Marilyn Monroe, Judy
Garland and James Dean and
says, “I am the last of the
great international stars.
There was Josephine Baker,
Marlene Dietrich and me. We
belonged to the world. I still
do .... They say I am a great
artist - that there is nobody
quite like me .... and yes, I do
believe that!”
Eartha Kitt has suffered
greatly in her lifetime. Her
childhood was filled with re
jection, pain, unexpressed
rage and resentment. She was
but a child when her mother’s
family physically threw her
out because she was “yella.”
Eartha savs. “Black ncnnlo
always denied me love ....
First as a child because I
wasn't Black enough and then
as an adult for the same
reason .... Today if someone
sees me as not Black enough,
it is their problem and not
mine. She denies the rumor
that she dated white men
exclusively, but exclaims "So
what if I did? It’s nobody’s
business .... I don’t see people
as Black or White. I see them
as human beings .... I belong
to no one race but to all!’’
Throughout her life Eartha
Kitt has not found safety with
the men she has known and
loved. Today Eartha says, "I
will not deal - not anymore -
with a man who cannot see
beyond my image .... I would
like to be loved.... but I am not
afraid to be alone as I am not
lonely.
Her marriage in 1960 to
Korean veteran Bill Mc
Donald ended in divorce five
years later, when her daught
er Kitt was four. "She was the
reason I married" says Earth
a “She makes it all worth
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to stay here, because here is
where she belongs.
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WBTV To Air “TTie Tony Awards”
The immediacy and vitality
of live theater, which has kng
attracted aspiring performers
and abdtences alike, will be
saluted on “Footlights! The
1978 Tony Awards Show,’’ the
Sind annual presentation of
the American Theatre Wing’s
Antoinette Perry (Tony)
Awards, to be broadcast live,
Sunday, June 4, at 9:80 p.m.
from the Sbubert Theatre in
New York on WBTV, Channel
3.
Appearing on the special
will be Edward Asner, Carol
Ghanning, Bonnie Franklin,
Julie Harris, Bob Hope, Linda
Lavin, Jack Lemmon, Hal
Linden, Lauren Bacall, Dick
Van Patten, Robert Guil
laume, Gene Kelly and Liza
Minnelli.
In a series of videotaped
who stars in “One Day at a
Time” on the Network, will
dramatize the various effects
maJdng the “rounds” of cast
ing offices, auditions, etc.-that
young performers undertake
to became part of the exciting
world of theater. The experi
ences will duplicate Miss
Franklin’s own early days,
when, as a youthful actress
singer, she arrived in New
York City brimming with
dreams of a theatrical career.
The dreams were soon reali
zed, culminating in her Tony
Award-nominated perform
ance in the musical
“Apphiase.” _
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