How tall was Eartha Kitt?

Eartha Kitt was raised an out - of-wedlock infant in the South Carolina cotton fields. Kitt's mum was an African-American and Cherokee Native American descent sharecropper. The name of its parent is uncertain. She had arrived in Harlem at the age of nine, given away by her parents. She left high school at 15 to work in a factory in Brooklyn. As an teenager, Kitt lived in the homes of friends and in the subways.By the 1950s, however, she had sang and danced her way out of poverty and into the spotlight: going on a European tour with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe, soloing at a bar in Paris and being the continent's toast. Orson Welles called her "the world's most thrilling girl"

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1 m 57 cm