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Eartha Mae Kitt, born January 17, 1927, is an
actor|actress and singer whose mother is Black
Cherokee and her father is White.  

She was born illegitimate in North, South
Carolina, but jokes about the fact that many
audiences assume her to be from somewhere more
exotic. Her hits include "Let's Do It", "C'est Si
Bon", "An Old-Fashioned Millionaire",
"Monotonous", "Love for Sale", "I'd Rather Be
Burned as a Witch", "Uska Dara", "Mink, Schmink",
"Under the Bridges of Paris", and "Santa Baby". 
Kitt's unique style was enhanced as she became
fluent in French during her years performing in
Europe. She dabbled in other languages as well,
which she demonstrates with finesse in many of the
live recordings of her cabaret performances.

Eartha Kitt got her start as a member of the
Katharine Dunham dance troupe and made her film
debut with them in Casbah (1948). A few years
later, she was cast in the revue New Faces of 1952
introducing "Monotonous", "C'est Si Bon" and
"Santa Baby", her 3 signature songs. During her
run, 20th Century-Fox filmed a version of the play
and Orson Welles cast Kitt as Helen of Troy in an
upcoming play. Welles and Kitt allegedly had a
torrid affair, which earned her the nickname by
Welles as "the most exciting girl in the world".
In 1958, Kitt made her feature film debut opposite
Sidney Poitier in The Mark of the Hawk. Throughout
the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, Kitt would
work on and off in film, television and on
nightclub stages. In the late 1960's television
series Batman, she played Catwoman in succession
to Julie Newmar. This role would be the role she
would best be remembered for, due to her purring
drawl.

In 1968, however, Kitt came into controversy. She
made anti-war statements during a White House
luncheon that year that made first lady Lady Bird
Johnson weep uncontrollably. She was virtually
exiled from the U.S. for a few years. Again, Kitt
would appear on film, variety shows, and on the
stage in the U.S. and overseas.

In 1984, she returned to hit music with a dance
song, "Where Is My Man".  In 2000, Kitt again
appeared on Broadway in the short but notable run
of the revival of the 1920s themed, The Wild
Party, opposite Mandy Patinkin and Toni Collette.
In 2003, she replaced Chita Rivera in Nine.

One of her more unusual roles was as Kaa the
Pythonidae|python in a 1994 BBC Radio adaptation
of The Jungle Book. Kitt lent her distinctive
voice to the role of Yzma in The Emperor's New
Groove and is currently doing other voiceover work
such as the voice of My Life as a Teenage
Robot#Queen Vexus|Queen Vexus on the animated TV
series My Life as a Teenage Robot.


==Filmography==
*Casbah (1948)
*New Faces (1954)
*The Mark of the Hawk (1958)
*St. Louis Blues (1958)
*Anna Lucasta (1959)
*Saint of Devil's Island (1961)
*Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) (voice only)
*Synanon (1965)
*All About People (1967) (short subject)
(narrator)
*Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
*Friday Foster (1975)
*All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1982)
(documentary)
*The Serpent Warriors (1985)
*The Pink Chiquitas (1987)
*Dragonard (1987)
*Master of Dragonard Hill (1989)
*Erik the Viking (1989)
*Living Doll (1990)
*Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
*Boomerang (1992)
*Fatal Instinct (1993)
*Unzipped (1995) (documentary)
*Harriet the Spy (1996)
*Ill Gotten Gains (1997)
*I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
*The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (voice)
*The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family (2002)
(documentary)
*The Sweatbox (2002) (documentary)
*Anything But Love (2002)
*Holes (2003)
*On the One (2004)
*Cherrys (2005) (currently filming)
*Kronk's New Groove (2005) (voice) (currently
filming)

==TV Work==
*Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
*To Kill a Cop (1978)
*Desperately Seeking Roger (1991)
*Feast of All Saints (2001) (miniseries)
*Santa Baby! (2001) (voice)


==External links==
* http://www.earthakitt.com/ Official site
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