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Eartha Kitt & James Dean, early 1950s (via American Masters). Dean studied dance with Kitt and said he learned more about acting from her lessons than he had in any acting class.
“[James Dean] said to me, ‘I want to move like you, can you teach me how to move my body like you do on stage?’ And I told him where to meet me, here in New York and that’s where we met for dance classes. And that’s where Jamie and I always met downstairs from that studio to have coffee, to have our little tete-a-tete conversations.”
“He was like my brother. He had something in him that he didn’t understand. He wanted to learn from me how to move on the stage the way I do, so I taught him how to control his body and how to let the words physically carry you from this point to that point. I was in a play and he’d just done his first film so we were both becoming known at that time. It was a good time.”
-Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt & James Dean, early 1950s (via American Masters). Dean studied dance with Kitt and said he learned more about acting from her lessons than he had in any acting class.

“[James Dean] said to me, ‘I want to move like you, can you teach me how to move my body like you do on stage?’ And I told him where to meet me, here in New York and that’s where we met for dance classes. And that’s where Jamie and I always met downstairs from that studio to have coffee, to have our little tete-a-tete conversations.”

“He was like my brother. He had something in him that he didn’t understand. He wanted to learn from me how to move on the stage the way I do, so I taught him how to control his body and how to let the words physically carry you from this point to that point. I was in a play and he’d just done his first film so we were both becoming known at that time. It was a good time.”

-Eartha Kitt

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I am really madly in love with her. I miss her so much.
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Really Eartha Kitt has the best life.
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Posted on Thursday the 25th of June 2009 at 06:44pm