Eartha is from the Old English eorþe — the earth, soil, planet. **Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)** — American singer, actress, and dancer; **Orson Welles called her "the most exciting woman in the world"**. **Born in South Carolina to a 14-year-old Black-Cherokee mother and an unknown father; raised in foster care in Harlem from age 8**. **Her sultry 1953 holiday song "Santa Baby" remains the highest-charting Black-female recording of a Christmas standard**. **Spoke fluent English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and conversational Chinese**. **Lady Bird Johnson's 1968 White House luncheon — at which Eartha publicly criticized the Vietnam War — got her blacklisted for ten years**.
Subject of John Williams's *Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story* (2021).
Eartha reduces to one — the number of most exciting woman.