Bad Hair Day

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves

The much-missed Betty White, whose centenary it is today

Eartha Kitt would have been 95 today

Moira Shearer (17th January 1926 – 31st January 2006)

Dalida (17th January 1933 – 3rd May 1987)

A cavalcade of icons, all born on the same day!

The higher the hair, the closer to god

Faye Dunaway (born 14th January 1941)

Caterina Valente (born 14th January 1931)

Ethel Merman (16th January 1908 – 15th February 1984)

Marilyn Horne (born 16th January 1934)

Eartha Kitt (17th January 1927 – 25th December 2008)

Dalida (17th January 1933 – 3rd May 1987)

Tippi Hedren (born 19th January 1930)

Unlikely conversations, #397 in a series

Groucho Marx and Diana Ross


Eleanor Roosevelt and Lucille Ball


Eartha Kitt and Marilyn Monroe


Gloria Vanderbilt, Pearl Bailey and Truman Capote


Kathleen Turner, Madonna, Martha Graham and Calvin Klein

Oh, to be a fly on the wall...

Down to Eartha

"It's best if you can do things with a sense of humour and finesse."

"Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection."

"Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected."

"I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that. Money brings me happiness, but I don't need a lot of it in order to be happy. I just want what is necessary. "

"My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."

Eartha Kitt (17th January 1927 – 25th December 2008)

More Eartha

We three Queens

Gloria Swanson, Eartha Kitt (born 85 years ago today on 17th January 1927) and some random chap.

Queens, all!

Nobody's business

It's worth reflecting while the crackers are pulled and the roasts devoured that Miss Eartha Kitt died on Xmas Day...

"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."

"I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land."

"Jewellery, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time."

"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."

"I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute."

Eartha Mae Kitt (17th January 1927 – 25th December 2008)