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 still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.
The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.
When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.
Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.
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.
The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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.
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.
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
People these days are thinking less and drinking more.
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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.