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Apr 26, 2021 · Orson Welles had called her the “most exciting woman in the world.” She had homes in Beverly Hills and London. But in 2001 — after her daughter Kitt Shapiro had married Allan Rothschild, and moved into his Westport house — Eartha Kitt bought a home in Weston.
Eartha Kitt's daughter, Kitt Shapiro, sat down with Craig Melvin on TODAY Monday to share her mother's legacy and lessons she learned at a young age about race.
Jan 22, 2021 · Eartha Mae’s life was transformed at the age of eight, when she went to live with her Aunt Mamie in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. Unacquainted with plumbing and electricity, she...
Apr 19, 2015 · Eartha Kitt was then sent to live with Mamie Kitt in Harlem, NY. She was told that Mamie was her ‘aunt’, but in later life came to believe that she was in fact her biological mother. Once called the “most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles, Kitt became a singer and dancer whose suggestive and sensuous performances captured the ...
Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".
Jan 9, 2022 · Eartha Kitt and husband Bill McDonald on August 30, 1960. | Photo: Getty Images. Advertisement. HOW DID EARTHA AND MCDONALD MEET? McDonald and Eartha first met through a mutual friend, Bob Dix — the son of late American Actor Richard Dix.
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Apr 7, 2021 · Eartha Mae was born into poverty in the small town of North, South Carolina, the illegitimate daughter of a young Black woman and a man she assumed to be white — and whose identity she never knew.
