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Kitt, a native of South Carolina, spoke four languages and sang in seven) proved that a vocal sizzle could be just as powerful as a bonfire.

Kitt had her first best-selling albums and recorded her biggest hit, вЂњSanta Baby,вЂќ whose precise, come-hither diction and vaguely foreign inflections (Ms. Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times in May 1952, вЂњEartha Kitt not only looks incendiary, but she can make a song burst into flame.вЂќ Truman plays bop for me/Monotonous, monotone-ousвЂќ). Returning to New York, she was cast on Broadway in вЂњNew Faces of 1952вЂќ and added another jewel to her vocal crown, вЂњMonotonousвЂќ (вЂњTraffic has been known to stop for me/Prices even rise and drop for me/Harry S. KittвЂ™s career-long persona, that of the seen-it-all sybarite, was set when she performed in Paris cabarets in her early 20s, singing songs that became her signatures, like вЂњCвЂ™est Si BonвЂќ and вЂњLove for Sale.вЂќ Orson Welles famously proclaimed her вЂњthe most exciting woman aliveвЂќ in the early вЂ™50s, apparently just after that excitement prompted him to bite her onstage during a performance of вЂњTime Runs,вЂќ an adaptation of вЂњFaustвЂќ in which Ms. With her curvaceous frame and unabashed vocal come-ons, she was also, along with Lena Horne, among the first widely known African-American sex symbols. Kitt, who began performing in the late вЂ™40s as a dancer in New York, went on to achieve success and acclaim in a variety of mediums long before other entertainment multitaskers like Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler. The cause was colon cancer, said her longtime publicist, Andrew E.

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Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday.