And sometimes she would come and sit somewhere up front, and she would yell out, 'Eartha, sing 'Waray Waray!'' She went on to perform her own one-woman show at The Shaftesbury Theatre to sold-out houses for three weeks in early 1989 after Follies. In her testimony, in May 1967, Kitt stated that the Rebels' "achievements and accomplishments should certainly make the adult 'do-gooders' realize that these young men and women have performed in 1 short year with limited finances that which was not achieved by the same people who might object to turning over some of the duties of planning, rehabilitation, and prevention of juvenile delinquents and juvenile delinquency to those who understand it and are living it". [in an Essence magazine interview regarding her anti-war statements to. 32 in the charts in that country. *Sorry For The Typo.R.I.P. Is Eartha Kitt still alive? In the late 1960s, Batman featured Kitt as Catwoman after Julie Newmar had left the show in 1967. Her other notable recordings include the UK Top 10 hit "Under the Bridges of Paris" (1954), "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" (1956) and "Where Is My Man" (1983). [at the White House in 1968] I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. Kitt, 81, died in New York, where she was being treated for colon cancer, Freedman said. Ten years later, she made a successful return to Broadway in the 1978 original production of the musical Timbuktu!, for which she received the first of her two Tony Award nominations. Entertainer. pp. Friend and publicist Andrew Freedman said Kitt died in New York on 25 December 2008 as a result of colon cancer which she had been fighting for the last 12 months. In 1950 she got her first starring role on stage, playing Helen of Troy in Orson Welles' Dr. Faustus. "; and in 2000, as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "The Wild Party". Started as a dancer with Katherine Dunham Group touring America, Mexico, and Europe. 36;[21] the song became a standard in discos and dance clubs of the time and made the Top 10 on the US Billboard dance chart, where it reached No. And on the last day, when I returned to my hotel in Las Vegas, my cabin was covered with bouquets of red, red, red roses, with a letter from Nat that said 'It is a pity that those of us who work in show business very seldom get a chance to know each other. Lucille Ball was told by drama and acting teachers that she didn't have enough talent to make it and Kitt's mother was a sharecropper of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent. Given away by her mother, she arrived in Harlem at age nine. In April 2008, just months before her death, Kitt appeared at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival; the performance was recorded. It was just the two of us hanging out [during the last days] she was very funny. Her father's identity is unknown. [12], In 1950, Orson Welles gave Kitt her first starring role as Helen of Troy in his staging of Dr. Faustus. In August 2007, Kitt was the spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics' Smoke Signals collection. Eartha Kitt became popular in Paris as a nightclub singer, then returned to the United States to appear in films and on Broadway. She was performing almost We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. [citation needed] She was also a guest star in "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" of The Simpsons, where she was depicted as one of Krusty's past marriages. As reported by Foxnews, Kitt, who had been very fond of her mother, recently shared some interesting facts about her TV star mother, Eartha, who passed on in 2008 at age 81, having been diagnosed with colon cancer.