Eartha Kitt - Biography

Last Editor: loloqt3				Eartha Kitt Biography -   Name : Eartha Kitt Birth Name : Eartha Mae Keith Date of Birth : January 17, 1927 Place of Birth : North, South Carolina, USA Date of Death : December 25, 2008 Cause of Death : Colon cancer Height : 5' 4'' Nationality : American Profession : Singer, Dancer, Actor

Eartha Kitt Trivia -

Daughter, Kitt McDonald. Grandchildren, Justin, 8, and Rachel, 4. Kitt's age was always a mystery, until 1998, when a group of students from her hometown in South Carolina unearthed her birth certificate. The document revealed that her true birthday is January 17, 1927. Measurements: 35-23-35 (as Catwoman), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Ranked #89 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll Was virtually exiled from the United States after making anti-war statements during a White House luncheon with Lady Bird Johnson in 1968. However, she was welcomed back to the White House by Jimmy Carter who took office in January of 1977. Was nominated twice for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1978, as Best Actress (Musical) for "Timbuktu!"; and in 2000, as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "The Wild Party." Was inspired to go into show business after witnessing the wild applause that the audience gave José Ferrer after one of his stage performances as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1946. Her name can be seen on a marquee in the infamously bad Edward D. Wood Jr. cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Her husband, William O. McDonald, was a real estate developer. They were married from 1960 - 1965. They had a daughter, Kitt McDonald Shapiro.

Eartha Kitt Detailed Biography -

Eartha Kitt, an out-of-wedlock child, 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, Eartha 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". Eartha Kitt 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. Eartha Kitt passed away of colon cancer at age 81 on December 25, 2008.