Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter. She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series Batman. It is often alleged that Orson Welles and Kitt had an affair during her run in Shinbone Alley in 1957. She categorically denied this in a June 2001 interview with Vanity Fair. She died of a heart attack at the age of 89.
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Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter. Her 1953 recordings of \”C’est si bon\” and the Christmas novelty song \”Santa Baby\”, both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series Batman. In 1968, her career in the U.S. deteriorated after she made anti-Vietnam War statements at a White House luncheon. It is often alleged that Orson Welles and Kitt had an affair during her run in Shinbone Alley in 1957. Kitt categorically denied this in a June 2001 interview with Vanity Fair, saying: ‘I never had sex with Welles, or with George Wayne’ She wrote three autobiographies and was a member of The Supremes, which Diana Ross said based her look and sound after Kitt’s. She died of a heart attack at the age of 89. She was buried in New York City, where she had lived most of her life. Her daughter, Kitt Shapiro, has questioned the accuracy of the claim that Kitt’s father was a white man, a local doctor named Daniel Sturkie. Kitt was born on a cotton plantation near the small town of North, South Carolina, or St. Matthews on January 17, 1927. Her mother Annie Mae Keith was of Cherokee and African descent. Though she had little knowledge of her father, it was reported that he was a son of the owner of the farm where she was born, and that Kitt was conceived by rape.
She had six US Top 30 hits in the early 1950s, including \”Uska Dara\” and \”I Want to Be Evil\”. Her other notable recordings include the UK Top 10 hit \”Under the Bridges of Paris\”, \”Just an Old Fashioned Girl” and \”Where Is My Man”? She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on the animated series The Emperor’s New School. She posthumously won a third Emmy in 2010 for her guest performance on Wonder Pets!. Her other films in the 1950s included The St Louis Blues and The Mark of the St. Louis Blues. She also appeared in The Emperor’s New Groove, in which she voiced the villainous Yzma, and Holes. She reprised the role in the direct-to-video sequel Kronk’s NewGroove, as well as the animatedseries The Emperors New School. She was married three times and had three children. She is survived by her daughter Kitt Shapiro and her son Kitt, who were both born in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and her grandson Kitt, born in 1961. She has a daughter, Kaitlin, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Kitt died of cancer in 2011 at age 89. Her last public appearance was in the musical Timbuktu! in 1978.
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