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
[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
[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 am the original Material Girl.
I am the original Material Girl.
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
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
[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
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.
Eartha Kitt'S roles
