Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kittwas an American actress, singer, cabaret star, dancer, stand-up comedian, activist and voice artist, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby", which were both US Top 10 hits. She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series Batman. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 January 1927
CityNorth, SC
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
I'm in and out of all the areas of the business. But of course the main thing is singing and acting.
My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't like anything like that. The only thing she liked was a concert pianist. Which is marvelous; I wish I'd studied piano.
The biggest family in the world is my fans.
I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.
The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.
I used to teach dance lessons.
When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.
You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.