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by Sandra Hale Schulman
News From Indian Country
Eartha Kitt, the part Cherokee, part black, and part white singing sensation who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-biz career that lasted more than six decades, passed away on December 25th. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut. The cause was colon cancer, said her longtime publicist, Andrew E. Freedman.
News From Indian Country
Eartha Kitt, the part Cherokee, part black, and part white singing sensation who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-biz career that lasted more than six decades, passed away on December 25th. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut. The cause was colon cancer, said her longtime publicist, Andrew E. Freedman.
