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Eartha Kitt
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| Mostly Credited As: | Eartha Kitt |
| Birth Name: | Eartha Mae Keith |
| Date Of Birth: | January 17, 1927 |
| Country Of Birth: |  USA |
| Birth Place: | North, South Carolina |
| Height: | 5' 4" |
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Jun/06/1960 - 1965 |
(divorced) (1 child) |
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An illegitimate child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina, the daughter of a white dirt farmer and a black Cherokee mother. 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 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 reveli ng in her treatment there as an honorary white.
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Starred in the movie Holes as Madam Zeroni.
| She was married to Bill McDonald from June 6, 1960, until they divorced in 1965.
| She has one daughter (from her marraige to Bill McDonald) named Kitt Shapiro.
| She has two grandchildren - Justin and Rachel.
| Was once good friends with James Dean. Their relationship was strictly platonic.
| Eartha once dated writer, Orson Welles.
| She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on 6656 Hollywood Blvd. for her work in music.
| Eartha is multi-racial. Her father, John Kitt is white, while her mother, Anna is black.
| Due to her mother, she comes from Cherokee ancestry.
| Her mother abandoned her at a young age.
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