• Date of Birth: January 17, 1927
  • Place of Birth: North, South Carolina, USA

Eartha Kitt Biography


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Replace this image with an actor photoEartha Kitt mini-bio: An illegitimate child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina, the daughter of a white dirt farmer and a black Cherokee mother. Given away by her mother, she arrived in Harlem at age nine, and at 15 she quit high school to work in a Brooklyn factory. As a teenager, Kitt lived in friends' homes and in the subways. By the 1950s, however, she had sung and danced her way out of poverty and into the spotlight: performing with the Katherine Dunham troupe on a European tour, soloing at a Paris night club and becoming the toast of the Continent. Orson Welles called her "the most exciting girl in the world". She speaks out on hard issues and plays no favorites; at one point, she drew flak from blacks by working throughout South Africa and reveling in her treatment there as an honorary white.

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  • EmperorMesmar
    I luv the songs I Wanna To Be Evil & I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch.
    RIP Eartha Kitt all the way from the Shetland Isles!
    posted 55 days ago
  • leslie1970
    RIP Eartha Kitt
    posted 333 days ago
  • TRONBATMAN
    Eartha was one of the sexiest ladies alive.She's the best Catwoman ever.
    posted 484 days ago
  • InkTaster
    i liked her voice in emperor's new groove
    posted 878 days ago

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