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
Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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.
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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.