Eartha Kitt
Birthday: 17 January 1927, North, South Carolina, USA
Birth Name: Eartha Mae Keith
Height: 157 cm
An out-of-wedlock child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina. Kitt's mother was a sharecropper of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent who became pregnant ...Show More
[in an Essence magazine interview regarding her anti-war statements to Lady Bird Johnson and her sub Show more
[in an Essence magazine interview regarding her anti-war statements to Lady Bird Johnson and her subsequent loss of work because of them] The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth -- in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth -- you get your face slapped and you get put out of work. Hide
I am the original Material Girl.
I am the original Material Girl.
If someone would even suggest such a vulgar thing as a goodbye-themed event for me, I would pretend Show more
If someone would even suggest such a vulgar thing as a goodbye-themed event for me, I would pretend I didn't hear it. Goodbye to what? My whole life? Hide
A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the Show more
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. Hide
[on Orson Welles] Orson spent most of his money on women. That's why he didn't have the money to mak Show more
[on Orson Welles] Orson spent most of his money on women. That's why he didn't have the money to make films. Hide
[on her friendship with James Dean] Jamie and I were like brother and sister. He told me, in fact, h Show more
[on her friendship with James Dean] Jamie and I were like brother and sister. He told me, in fact, he thought of me as a sister. Our relationship was strictly platonic and spiritual. Hide
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such Show more
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. Hide
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family. The biggest family in Show more
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. Hide
[at the White House in 1968] I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gu Show more
[at the White House in 1968] I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot. Hide
Eartha Kitt's FILMOGRAPHY - Page 2
as Actor (188)
Eartha Kitt'S roles
Madame Zeroni
Old Lady Hackmore
Yzma
Eartha Kitt
Madame Rena
Agatha K. Plummer
Lady Eloise
Bagheera
