![]() ![]() In her own 1989 autobiography, Eartha Kitt: Confessions of a Sex Kitten, Kitt wrote that she thought the luncheon would be "a lot of nonsense - flowers, champagne, a chance to show off. ![]() So in 1968, when Kitt was invited to a White House luncheon by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, she accepted despite having some trepidations. In her mom's view, "If you didn't want to hear what I have to say, then why did you ask me?" ![]() "When she was asked a question, if somebody asked her opinion, she thought you actually wanted to hear what she had to say," Shapiro says. The experience was one that shocked Washington, D.C., and derailed Kitt's career in the U.S.Īs the singer's daughter, Kitt Shapiro, recounts in her new memoir, Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black & White (excerpted in this week's PEOPLE), the singer was never one to shy away from speaking her mind - even when it came to politics. By 1968, the seductive cabaret singer was at the height of career - so much so, that the White House invited her to participate in a luncheon for "women to-doers." Straud/Hulton Archive/Getty Eartha Kitt in 1972Īfter being born into poverty, being abandoned by her mother and overcoming domestic abuse, Eartha Kitt forged an unlikely path to international fame. ![]()
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