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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kitt worked hard to get to the top, but when she was a child, she had to fight prejudice within the African-American community because of her light skin color.
Kitt continued to act in both theater and on film, and to perform in nightclubs.Unwilling to contribute to the discrimination rampant in American society, Kitt decided that she would not perform before segregated audiences and included that requirement in her contracts.
Kitt grew up knowing little about her past, and for this reason, there are some contradictions in some of the stories that have been written about her childhood.
www.usca.edu /aasc/kitt.htm   (1476 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt, MP3 Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Eartha Kitt epitomized the idea of the sex-kitten chanteuse, rising to fame with a nightclub act centered around her slinky stage presence and her throaty purr of a voice.
Kitt's persona was so vivid and well-developed that she remained easily identifiable well after her early-'50s heyday, and it also helped her find success as an actress in movies, TV, and theater.
Kitt recorded her debut album, RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt, in 1953, and it was a major hit, climbing into the Top Five on the LP charts.
www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559954.html   (1279 words)

  
 OutSmart - This Issue
Eartha Mae is afraid of being rejected and she is always in hiding.
Eartha Kitt, she’s open 99-and-nine-tenths of the time and is very happy she has become Eartha Kitt because the public has made her who she is. The public has become my fairy godmother and that’s the only way I was adopted.
Eartha Kitt is, in some ways, also afraid because when she walks out on the stage, she never knows whether the public is going to give her the kind of applause that says, "We’re glad you are here.
www.outsmartmagazine.com /issue/i07-01/eartha.html   (7943 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Eartha Kitt got her start as a member of the Katharine Dunham dance troupe and made her film debut with them in Casbah Casbah quick summary:
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Kitt lent her distinctive voice to the role of Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove The Emperor\'s New Groove quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/eartha_kitt.htm   (1665 words)

  
 Colored Reflections - The Sixties, Eartha Kitt
Eartha knew sometimes that she was hungry and that her clothes were not the best.
Kitt felt she was called names because she was multiracial, although she really never knew her father, she overheard others speaking about both her mother and father.
Kitt had a talent for languages--she is fluent in three--and sang some of her most famous hit songs in other languages.
www.coloredreflections.com /decades/decade.cfm?dec=2&typ=2&sty=1&sid=42   (280 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt
After touring with Katherine Dunham's dance troupe, Kitt headlined at choice nightclubs in both Paris and the U.S. She made her acting debut as Helen of Troy in Orson Welles' 1951 staging of Faust.
She made several well-received TV guest appearances in the 1950s and 1960s, unexpectedly gaining a flock of preteen fans for her portrayal of The Catwoman on a 1967 installment of Batman.
Eartha Kitt has authored several books of memoirs, and in 1982 was the subject of the documentary film All By Myself.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+38591   (288 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt got her start as a member of the Katharine Dunham dance troupe and made her film debut with them in Casbah (1948).
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.
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 Queen Vexus on the animated TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Eartha_Kitt   (493 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: The ageless, purr-fect Eartha Kitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Eartha Kitt, Catwoman extraordinaire and "interpreter of songs," comes to Jazz Alley Tuesday-May 23.
She recently acted on Broadway in the star-studded "Nine." (Hollywood Reporter: "The indomitable Kitt is a delight...
If you answered A), prepare to be scolded by Kitt, even though she is headlining at Jazz Alley Tuesday through May 23 ($29.50-$33.50, www.jazzalley.com).
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001928212_nite14.html   (634 words)

  
 UGO Batman Hub - Gotham Girls: Catwoman - Eartha Kitt - BATMAN.UGO.COM
A dancer, Kitt brought a grace and elegance to the role, as well as a sly savvy in her portrayal of Batman's feline adversary.
Kitt's offscreen reputation as a force to be reckoned with (as a guest at the White House in 1968, Kitt openly critized the war in Vietnam, causing her to be fllisted in America for years) only deepens our appreciation of her non-nonsense interpretation of Catwoman.
Eartha Kitt give Catwoman a toughness that would may have helped to fertilize the ground for a character who, in later years, could not only match wits with Batman but also hold her own in a fight with him.
batman.ugo.com /gothamgirls/catwoman/eartha_kitt   (526 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt : That Bad Eartha - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Like its predecessor, RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt, Eartha Kitt's second album, That Bad Eartha, also released in 1953, became a Top Five hit in a year when the curiosity about this exotic creature seemed to be limitless.
Although she was actually from South Carolina by way of Harlem, Kitt came across as an international chanteuse, which spending a few years in Paris, among other places, will do for you.
In addition to French and Turkish, Kitt sang in Spanish and Swahili, which was more than enough to justify her image as a classy import.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,115521,00.html   (339 words)

  
 Nellie McKay and Eartha Kitt: Center Stage
Kitt-or, as her publicist urgently insisted we call her, Miss Kitt-started life 80 years ago with a single mother who worked the cotton fields of South Carolina and then decided to give her daughter away to a family in Harlem.
From her splashy debut in New Faces of 1952 Miss Kitt was unique: a lithe and supple dancer, an exotic beauty and without a doubt the most seductive singer on the planet.
Kitt: People are getting tired of noise and looking for the kind of quality we used to have as artists who could take an intimate cabaret feeling into a bigger arena without losing anything.
harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3988   (1668 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Eartha Kitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Chances are most people my age remember Eartha Kitt for her stint as Catwoman on the original Batman TV series.
But by the time Kitt was meowrrling her way between the biffs and pows, it was her third, fourth or fifth career; it's a bit unfair to pigeonhole her talents to a bit role as a feline vamp on what is arguably the peak of television camp.
The liner notes hint at a life and career that is complicated even by today's standards, but in the end, Kitt's voice washes away all the details with a raspy tongue and silk-soft step.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_06/wet_ink/music_jm/110_eartha_kitt.shtml   (278 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt – from her name to her appearance to her singing style, she has evoked exotic images for 50 years: a sultry, almost feline stage presence (which led inevitably to her role as Catwoman in the 1960s
Named “Eartha” because the 1927 harvest was a good one, she was of mixed racial heritage.
In 1968 Kitt was outspoken in her opposition to the war in Vietnam while attending a White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, then the First Lady.
www.holeintheweb.com /drp/bhd/EarthaKitt.htm   (939 words)

  
 Windy City Times
In fact, when I rang the land line at her Western Connecticut home recently, she had just returned from the recording studio and was a week away from getting on a plane and heading to the West Coast for a six-night performance engagement.
Kitt is outspoken on her stance regarding gay marriage.
Unstoppable and as electrifying as the days when she wooed every man in Hollywood, Eartha Kitt continues to strut her stuff in jazz clubs and on the Broadway stage, most recently starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the revival of Nine.
www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=7907   (878 words)

  
 Westport Now: Singer Eartha Kitt Injured in Westport Accident
Legendary singer Eartha Kitt, 77, of Weston, was slightly injured today when her SUV collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Post Road East and Compo Road North in Westport and flipped over.
Westporter Kitt Shapiro takes charge of poodles belonging to her mother, Eartha Kitt, after the singer was involved in a two-car accident today.
Kitt, who was alone in her Range Rover with her two toy poodles, was talking animatedly with police, fire and Westport EMS personnel moments after the accident, according to a WestportNow photographer.
www.westportnow.com /archives/008894.htm   (625 words)

  
 Songbirds: Eartha Kitt
Singer-actress Eartha Kitt first recorded four standards with Doc Cheatam in 1950 after touring most of the world with the Katherine Dunham dance troupe, did two Afro-Cuban sides for Seeco, then got discovered in New Faces of 1952 with her show-stopping number Monotonous.
Kitt was lucky to have arrangers and producers who were as determined to display her versatility in authentic and interesting settings as they were to capture the exciting presence of this very visual performer on recordings.
She is as much an experience as she is a singer, the epitome of "personality" singing but bubbling over with a musicality that finds her recordings standing the test of time.
www.mrlucky.com /songbirds/html/sep99/9909_kitt.html   (450 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Eartha Kitt - Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits: Music: Eartha Kitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
More than a decade before starring as Catwoman to Adam West's Batman--years and years, in fact, before pop singers were referred to as "divas"--Eartha Kitt made herself in the image of a gold digger with a lust not just for cash, but for lust itself.
I had the pleasure of seeing Miss Kitt for the third time in Georgetown last week, and I must say that she never ceases to amaze me. I have several of her older albums on CD, but the vocal quality of this disc is far superior.
Eartha Kitt's voice is incredible and her delivery of lyrics is truly impressive.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JCN9?v=glance   (1156 words)

  
 Curio Corner - Compilation: Eartha Kitt: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews July 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Sex-kitten Eartha Kitt, draped seductively across a chaise-longue, clad in skin-tight cat suit, and dragging on an enormously long cigarette holder is an image cherished by picture-goers.
Looking at her film career in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, I was surprised to discover that it spanned 1956 through to 1998 for she is best remembered for her early films of the 1950s especially New Faces, Thursday's Child and St Louis Blues.
But Eartha is best remembered for her bad-girl songs.
www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2002/Jul02/Eartha_Kitt.html   (339 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The daughter of a white dirt farmer and a fl Cherokee mother, Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina.
In 1988, Kitt played the role of Carlotta Campion in the London production of Follies and sang Stephen Sondheim's legendary anthem to survival, "I'm Still Here", which, appropriately, became the title of one of her volumes of autobiography.
In the early 90s Kitt performed her one-woman show in London and New York and appeared as a witch in the comedy/horror movie Ernest Scared Stupid.
musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6254511   (508 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt tickets - Eartha Kitt information - Boston Metro
Eartha Kitt has had an enduring career spanning film, theater, cabaret, television, and music.
In 1967, Eartha Kitt played the infamous Catwoman in the television series Batman, a role that became synonymous with her and her trademark growl.
Kitt has been just as active as ever and has no plans to slow down, with National tours of The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, and freqent guest appearances on television.
www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/107433   (268 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt: Rejuvenate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Eartha Kitt is the freest spirit you have ever met.”
Batman in the 1960s, to her sold-out shows at New York’s CafĂ© Carlyle in the 1990s, her Tony-nominated role on Broadway in 1999, and her hilarious performance as Yzma, the villainess in Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove in 2000, Eartha Kitt is one of America’s most versatile and enduring performers.
Eartha Kitt is the national spokesperson for Project On Growing, a program which teaches homeless families to grow their own food and feed themselves.
www.tonyabolden.com /bkrejuv.html   (369 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt @ Filmbug
At the urging of a friend, the young Kitt auditioned for and was awarded a position as a featured dancer and vocalist with the famed Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe.
Kitt's television work is no less extensive, ranging from her Emmy-nominated work on I Spy to her unforgettable performance as Catwoman on the television series Batman.
Kitt received her third Tony nomination in 2000 for her performance in the acclaimed Broadway show The Wild Party.
www.filmbug.com /db/61980   (487 words)

  
 eBay - eartha kitt cd, CDs, Wholesale, Bulk Lots items on eBay.com
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 Kitt, Eartha -
Kitt was given by her mother to another woman to raise on a South Carolina plantation.
When she was eight she was sent to Harlem to another woman.
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famous.adoption.com /famous/kitt-eartha.html   (189 words)

  
 HYP RECORDS/Odd Pop: Torch Singers--Eartha Kitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Eartha Kitt's life is well-documented in no fewer than three autobiographies (can a fourth be long in coming?).
Material ranges from the wry cocktail entertainment of her live act, to exotic souvenirs from her travels and facility with a great number of languages, to a "soul sister" album (from about the time she pissed off President & Ladybird Johnson and became fllisted for years).
Eartha Kitt is as fantastic as a self-described "sophisticated cotton picker" could be, and almost all her records are well worthwhile.
www.hipwax.com /music/oddpop/torch_ek.html   (677 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Holy cluster of Catwomen!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Three Catwomen who purr-fectly embodied Batman's feline archnemesis Julie Newmar, 68, and Eartha Kitt, 77, in the 1966-68 TV series, and Lee Meriwether, 68, in the 1966 movie — gathered for the first time earlier this month at the TV Land Awards (tonight, 9 ET/PT).
Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt and Lee Merriweather have all sharpened their claws (and talent) playing Catwoman.
Kitt: She has a tremendous sense of humor.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-03-16-catwomen_x.htm   (475 words)

  
 Eartha Kitt Pictures, Biography, Discography, Filmography, News,
Born January 17, 1927 - Born in the South and raised in Harlem, sultry fl actress/singer Eartha Kitt attended New York's High School of Performing Arts.
Discuss Eartha Kitt with Starpulse members in the forums...
In 1971 Eartha Kitt sang the title song to the film "up the chastity belt" it has never been put onto album or cd anyone know how I can get a copy of the song?
www.starpulse.com /Actresses/Kitt,_Eartha   (182 words)

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