Eartha Kitt, who passed away on Christmas at the age of 81, was a singer actress and self described sex symbol, probably best known for her song "Santa Baby", originally sung and recorded in 1953.The ringtone of this hit was certified gold in early december.
CNN noted:
She recorded more than 20 albums, worked in hundreds of television and movie roles, and was invited as a guest to the White House several times.
Apparently, she was infamously outspoken:
...her addiction to truth-telling in the wrong place got her informally blacklisted.cheers to the outspoken ones....The occasion was a White House luncheon, hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, in Jan. 1968, near the zenith of the Vietnam War, just before the Tet Offensive. Kitt had given birth to a daughter in 1960, from her five-year marriage to real-estate developer William O. McDonald, and spoke more as a mother than as a criminologist. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the First Lady. "They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam."
The statement, and its setting, cued an uproar, and for several years Kitt got no work in the U.S.
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