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Kitt, Eartha (Mae) 1928-

PERSONAL: Born January 26, 1928, in North, SC; daughter of William (a sharecropper) and Anna Mae (Riley) Kitt; married William McDonald, June, 1960 (divorced, 1965); children: Kitt McDonald Shapiro (daughter). Education: Educated in New York, NY.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Office—Eartha Kitt Productions, 888 Seventh Ave., Floor 37, New York, NY 10106-3799. Agent—Gurtman and Murtha Assoc., 162 West 56th St., New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Singer, dancer, actress, and nightclub performer. Toured United States, Mexico, and South America as a dancer and singer with Katherine Dunham dance troupe, 1944-49; European nightclub debut at Carroll's, Paris, France, 1949; played Helen of Troy in Orson Welles's production of Faust, Paris, 1951; American nightclub debut at La Vie en Rose, New York, NY. Stage performances include New Faces, 1952, Mrs. Patterson, 1954, Shinbone Alley, 1957, Jolly's Progress, 1959, and role of Princess-Sahleem-La-Lume, Timbuktu, 1978; touring performances include productions of T

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Eartha Mae Kitt was born on January 26, 1928, in the city of North in South Carolina. Her sharecropper parents abandoned Kitt and her half-sister as young children, forcing them to live with a foster family until they moved to New York City, New York to live with their aunt in 1938.

Until the age of fourteen, Kitt attended Metropolitan High School in New York City where she was recognized for her talents in singing, dancing, baseball, and pole-vaulting. She met Katherine Dunham when she was sixteen, and toured Mexico, South America, and Europe as a dancer in Dunham’s troupe. Kitt remained in Paris after the tour, entertaining audiences across the world with her provocative dancing and singing.

Kitt was offered her first role in the theater in 1951 when Orson Welles cast her as Helen of Troy in his stage production Faust

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. Kitt won critical reviews for her performance, which led to her role in Leonard Stillman’s New Faces Broadway revue. She released a best-selling Broadway album after the show to kick off

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Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt, a native of North, overcame tremendous odds during her childhood to become a renowned entertainer on stage and screen. With perseverance, hard work, talent, and a bit of luck, she hurdled life’s challenges to earn the right to perform before millions of fans. Her work earned the acclaim of both her critics and peers. The career of this multi-talented actress, singer, dancer, and author is proof that impoverishment and despair can be conquered by desire and enthusiasm. An international star who has given new meaning to the word “versatility,” she is one of only a handful of performers to be nominated twice for both a Tony Award and a Grammy Award as well as for an Emmy. Born in 1928 into the harsh world of southern sharecropping, she grew up during the era of the Great Depression and World War II. Sharecropping, a form of tenant farming often left farmers in serious debt every year. Deserted, and later orphaned, Miss Kitt was left to take care of a younger sister, and was forced to pick cotton to earn their keep. When she was eight