Profile
Eartha Kitt
Singer
Female
Born
Jan 17, 1927
Hometown
North, South Caro...
Died
Dec 25, 2008
Death Place
Weston, Connecticut
Other Names
Eartha Mae Keith
Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once… Read More
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Romance
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Bill McdonaldMarried 1960
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Arthur M. Loew Jr.Dated
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Liz Smith: Put On Your Kinky Boots And Dance To The Music Of Broadway's Newest Hit! Tony Awards Watch OutHuffington Post - Apr 08, 2013
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Dana Oliver: Is It Ever Too Cold For Lingerie?Huffington Post - Oct 12, 2012
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A River Runs Through The Thursday Open ThreadRoanoke.com - Aug 30, 2012
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These Celebrities Have Been Banned From Some Of America's Top HotelsBusiness Insider - Aug 15, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1927
Birth
Born on January 17, 1927.
TEENAGE
1943
16 Years Old
Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948.
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TWENTIES
1950
23 Years Old
In 1950, Orson Welles gave Kitt her first starring role, as Helen of Troy in his staging of Dr. Faustus.
1952
25 Years Old
A few years later, she was cast in the revue New Faces of 1952, introducing "Monotonous" and "Bal, Petit Bal", two songs with which she is still identified.
1954
27 Years Old
In 1954, 20th Century Fox filmed a version of the revue, titled New Faces, in which she performed "Monotonous", "Uska Dara", and "C'est Si Bon".
THIRTIES
1957
30 Years Old
Though it is often alleged that Welles and Kitt had an affair during her 1957 run in Shinbone Alley, Kitt categorically denied this in a June 2001 interview with George Wayne of Vanity Fair. "I never had sex with Orson Welles", Kitt told Vanity Fair: "It was a working situation and nothing else".
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1960
33 Years Old
After romances with the cosmetics magnate Charles Revson and banking heir John Barry Ryan III, she married John William McDonald, an associate of a real estate investment company, on June 6, 1960.
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1964
37 Years Old
In 1964, Kitt helped open the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California.
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FORTIES
1968
41 Years Old
In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon.
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FIFTIES
She returned to New York in a triumphant turn in the Broadway spectacle Timbuktu! (a version of the perennial Kismet set in Africa) in 1978.
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1984
57 Years Old
In 1984, she returned to the music charts with a disco song, "Where Is My Man", the first certified gold record of her career. "Where Is My Man" reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 36; The song also made the Top 10 on the US Billboard dance chart, where it reached No. 7.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In 2000, Kitt again returned to Broadway in the short-lived run of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party opposite Mandy Patinkin and Toni Collette.
2003
76 Years Old
In 2003, she replaced Chita Rivera in Nine.
2004
77 Years Old
She reprised her role as the Fairy Godmother at a special engagement of Cinderella, which took place at Lincoln Center during the holiday season of 2004.
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2006
79 Years Old
From October to early December 2006, Kitt co-starred in the Off-Broadway musical Mimi le Duck.
She also appeared in the 2007 independent film And Then Came Love opposite Vanessa Williams.
2008
82 Years Old
Kitt died from colon cancer on Christmas Day 2008 at her Weston, Connecticut home.
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