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 Why was Eartha Kitt not mentioned at the Oscars this year when they showed their usual tribute to actors and other film celebrities who had died over the past year?
Eartha Kitt died of colon cancer on Christmas day, 2008. She started as a dancer in Vaudeville and became a popular singer and actress who appeared in TV shows and movies for about 60 years. She is perhaps most famous for playing Catwoman on the 1960s Batman TV series.
Speaking about the Oscar's oversight, her publicist told the NY Post, "It's clear that they thought that publicist Warren Cowan was more of a household name." Never heard of him.
Orson Welles once called Eartha Kitt the "most exciting woman in the world."
At Pink Flamingo Burlesque we give a purr out to our favourite super-hero nemesis, and a woman with a beautifully sexy singing voice. Listen to our version of "Mink Schmink" a song made famous by Miss Kitt.
If you'd like to hear more of Kitt's music, I would also suggest finding a copy of her version of "C'est si bon" and "Let's Do It" which she sang so wonderfully.
Having been raised in the southern states and with a troubled childhood, Eartha Kitt knew what it meant to be to be discriminated against. Kitt later admitted that the sexy stage persona that made her famous was all an act. She said she was actually quite shy, having been traumatized by her family abandoning her as a child.
"I'm an orphan," she once said. "But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans."
Later in life Eartha Kitt became an advocate for gay rights, publicly supporting same-sex marriage which she believed to be a civil right. She had been quoted as saying: "I support [gay marriage] because we're asking for the same thing. If I have a partner and if something happens to me, I want that partner to enjoy the benefits of what we have reaped together. It's a civil-rights thing, isn't it?"
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