10 Things I Learned From Eartha Kitt’s “Unsung Hollywood” Episode
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She was going to marry the head of MGM
When Kitt came to fame, her alluring and sensual persona followed her off the stage and attracted the attention and affections of several men, Black and White. One of the pivotal relationships in her life was the one with the heir to the MGM fortune, Arthur Loew Jr. The two were in love and when Loew went home to tell his family that he wanted to marry Eartha, the forbid it, saying that if he did so, he would be cut off from the family and the money. He offered Eartha a chance to live life with him in the shadows, an offer she refused. In a 1989 interview with Terry Wogan, she said, “They would rather them marry trash than marry someone of color no matter how wonderful that person of color may be.”