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
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.
Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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.
I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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.
I'm in and out of all the areas of the business. But of course the main thing is singing and acting.
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.
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.