Posted on 12/25/2008 4:04:21 PM PST by JoeProBono
Actress and "Santa Baby" singer Eartha Kitt has died.
Kitt, 81, died Thursday in New York City, her publicist confirmed to CNN, after being treated there for colon cancer. Her daughter Kitt Shapiro was by her side.
Known primarily for singing in her distinctively raspy voice and purring like a cat as Catwoman on the television series Batman, Kitt was a star of stage, film, television and music, who was nominated for three Tony awards, two Grammy awards and two Emmy awards, according to her official Web site.
eartha to eartha...
The only TV Catwoman I knew was Julie Newmar:
Guest appearances... Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Meriwether (in Batman: The Movie) as the Catwomanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(TV_series)#Guest_appearances
She will be missed. It’s ironic that she died today, given that “Santa, Baby” was her biggest hit.
RIP
Isn’t the one who publicly dressed down Lyndon Johnson?
"An out-of-wedlock child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina, a pregnancy resulting from the rape by a white plantation owner and a sharecropper mother of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent.
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 Dance 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".
IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver
I like that Song. I heard some version playing in a grocery store last week. The girl was singing it too "slutty". A guilty looking Kirstey Alley sung it for a commercial a few years back. Kitt's version is good.
She was Catwoman # 3 in the old Batman show during it's final not very entertaining season.
Champagne taste on a beer bottle pocket last heard at the
MGM in Vegas Crazy horse show.
Wow who knew.
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