eartha to eartha...
The only TV Catwoman I knew was Julie Newmar:
She will be missed. It’s ironic that she died today, given that “Santa, Baby” was her biggest hit.
RIP
"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
Save a place for the rest of us lady.
May God rest your Soul.
I just hate the song “Santa Baby” along with the song “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Clause” and a few others.
I remember hearing Eartha berate Clinton over messing with Monica In “Eartha’s House”.
Too bad. Prayers for her family.
Altho I liked Bernadette Peter’s version best.
A reader e-mails re the late Miss Eartha Kitt:I saw/met Miss Kitt at a public appearance/album signing at the Borders Book Store in Downtown Boston about a decade ago. Someone asked the former lefty/commie (the FBI had an extensive file on her in the 1960s) about current political events and she let go with a denunciation of Washington worthy of the most right-wing Republican! Honestly, she sounded like she was reading from a Newt Gingrich speech! She denounced the federal income tax and capital gains taxes. I loved it!
