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Eartha Mae Keith Wiki Biography

• Eartha Mae Keith was born on January 17, 1927, in North, South Carolina, and died on December 25, 2008, in Weston, Connecticut, in the United States. 
• She was an American singer, cabaret performer, dancer, actress, and activist best known for her recordings “C’est Si Bon” (1953) and “Santa Baby,” both of which became Christmas novelty hits (1953). 
• Kitt’s net worth has steadily risen since her career began in 1943, thanks to her versatility as an artist; she worked in the entertainment industry until 2008. 
• Have you ever wondered what Eartha Kitt’s net worth was in the middle of 2016? 
• Kitt’s net worth was reported to be $4 million, according to authoritative sources. 
• She made the majority of her money by singing and acting on stage, but she was also an actress, which added to her fortune. 
• Mamie Kitt, Eartha Kitt’s mother, was of African and Cherokee descent and was born on a cotton plantation. 
• Although it was never proven, Eartha’s father was of German origin, and she was conceived by rape. 
• Eartha Riley was raised by Anna Mae Riley, whom she mistook for her mother. 
• She learned to speak four languages and sing in seven, ensuring that she could perform effectively in Europe. 
• In the 1990s, she wasn’t as well-known, but she did have a few notable roles, including “Ernest Scared Stupid” (1991), “Boomerang” (1992), starring Eddie Murphy and Halle Berry, and “Fatal Instinct” (1993). 
• “Harriet the Spy” by Bronwen Hughes and Armand Assante (1996). 
• All of this contributed to the increase in her net worth. 
• Eartha Kitt has voiced several characters in animated series, the most well-known of which are “My Life as a Teenage Robot” (2003-2007) and “The Emperor’s New School” (2006-2008). 
• Eartha won many prestigious honors over the course of her long and fruitful career, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. 
• She also received three Daytime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, among other awards, for her work on the shows “Wonder Pets!” and “The Emperor’s New School.” 
• Eartha Kitt was married to William O. McDonald from 1960 to 1964, and the couple had a daughter called Kitt Shapiro together. 
• Kitt was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006, and it claimed her life on Christmas Day of the following year. 
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Eartha Mae Keith Trademarks

1. Natural black hair
2. High-pitched voice

Eartha Mae Keith Quotes

• 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?
• [on Orson Welles] Orson spent most of his money on women. That’s why he didn’t have the money to make films.
• A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
• [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.
• I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
• 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.
• [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.
• [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 the pot.
• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
• I am the original Material Girl.

Eartha Mae Keith Important Facts

• Holds two Daytime Emmy Award records. She is both the only performer to win the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program award three times, as well as the only winner to win three consecutive awards.
• Friends with Freda Payne, and Dick Gregory.
• In 1953, she recorded with Henri Rene and his Orchestra the American version of the French song “C’est si Bon” which was written in 1947 by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics). The English lyrics were written by Jerry Seelen in 1950 but Eartha Kitt sings the song in French. This version was used in New Faces (1954).
• She was a staunch liberal Democrat.
• Eartha Kitt passed away on December 25, 2008, a month away from what would have been her 82nd birthday on January 17, 2009.
• Well-known for her recordings of “Santa Baby” in the 1950s and 1960s. She died on Christmas Day 2008 at her home in Weston, Connecticut.
• She was awarded the 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for “Lady Day at the Emerson’s Bar & Grill” at the Broadway Productions and New Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• Was nominated in 1996 for a Grammy Award in traditional pop vocal performance for her album “Back in Business”.
• Among her liaisons with wealthy men included Charles Revson, the Revlon cosmetics founder, and actor Orson Welles, who spotted her in a Paris nightclub and cast her in his Paris stage production of “Faust”.
• An aunt brought her to New York City where she attended the High School of Performing Arts, before dropping out to take on various menial jobs, including one in a factory.
• Became fluent in French during her long years performing in Europe.
• In 1968, she suffered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. It was reported that she made Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady at the time, cry when she bluntly told her, “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.” However, the public reaction to Kitt’s statements was even more extreme both for and against her statements. Professionally exiled from the United States, she devoted her energies to overseas performances for nearly a decade.
• Replaced Chita Rivera for a time in the Broadway revival of the musical “Nine”.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6656 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• Her husband, William O. McDonald, was a real estate developer. They were married from 1960 to 1965. They had one daughter: Kitt McDonald.
• Her name can be seen on a marquee in the infamously terrible Edward D. Wood Jr. cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).
• Was inspired to go into show business after witnessing the wild applause that the audience gave José Ferrer after one of his stage performances as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1946.
• Was nominated twice for Broadway’s Tony Award: in 1978, as Best Actress (Musical) for “Timbuktu!”; and in 2000, as Best Actress (Featured Role – Musical) for “The Wild Party”.
• Was virtually exiled from the United States after making anti-war statements during a White House luncheon with Lady Bird Johnson in 1968. However, she was welcomed back to the White House by Jimmy Carter who took office in January 1977.
• Ranked #89 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
• Kitt’s age was always a mystery, until 1998 when a group of students from her hometown in South Carolina unearthed her birth certificate. The document revealed that her true birthday is January 17, 1927.
• Daughter: Kitt McDonald. Grandchildren: Justin and Rachel Shapiro.

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