Eartha Kitt Net Worth

Eartha Kitt Net Worth is
$4 Million

Eartha Kitt Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actress, singer, cabaret star, dancer, stand-up comedienne, activist and voice artist, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby", which were b...

Full NameEartha Kitt
Net Worth$4 Million
Date Of BirthJanuary 17, 1927, North, South Carolina, United States
DiedDecember 25, 2008, Weston, Connecticut, United States
Place Of BirthNorth
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
ProfessionActor, Singer, Dancer
EducationHigh School of Performing Arts
NationalityUnited States of America
SpouseJohn William McDonald (m. 1960–1965)
ChildrenKitt McDonald
ParentsMamie Kitt
NicknamesEartha Mae Keith , Kitty Charles , Eartha Mae Kitt , Miss Kitt , Mother Eartha
AwardsDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program
NominationsTony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Primetime Emmy...
MoviesThe Emperor's New Groove, Boomerang, Holes, Anna Lucasta, Friday Foster, Kronk's New Groove, St. Louis Blues, Harriet the Spy, The Mark of the Hawk, Ernest Scared Stupid, Erik the Viking, And Then Came Love, Fatal Instinct, Up the Chastity Belt, Synanon, I Woke Up Early The Day I Died, Ill-Gotten Ga...
TV ShowsThe Emperor's New School, I Spy, Batman, Brown Sugar
Star SignCapricorn
#Trademark
1Natural black hair
2High-pitched voice
#Quote
1If 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?
2[on Orson Welles] Orson spent most of his money on women. That's why he didn't have the money to make films.
3A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
4[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.
5I'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.
6I 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.
7[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.
8[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 pot.
9I 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.
10I am the original Material Girl.
#Fact
1Holds 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.
2Friends with Freda Payne, and Dick Gregory.
3In 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).
4She was a staunch liberal Democrat.
5Eartha Kitt passed away on December 25, 2008, a month away from what would have been her 82nd birthday on January 17, 2009.
6Well-known for her recordings of "Santa Baby" in the 1950s and 1960s. She died on Christmas Day 2008 at her home in Weston, Connecticut.
7She 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.
8Was nominated in 1996 for a Grammy Award in traditional pop vocal performance for her album "Back in Business".
9Among 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".
10An 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.
11Became fluent in French during her long years performing in Europe.
12In 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.
13Replaced Chita Rivera for a time in the Broadway revival of the musical "Nine".
14She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6656 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
15Her husband, William O. McDonald, was a real estate developer. They were married from 1960 to 1965. They had one daughter: Kitt McDonald.
16Her name can be seen on a marquee in the infamously terrible Edward D. Wood Jr. cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).
17Was 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.
18Was 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".
19Was 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.
20Ranked #89 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
21Kitt'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.
22Daughter: Kitt McDonald. Grandchildren: Justin and Rachel Shapiro.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dragonard1987Naomi
Master of Dragonard Hill1987Naomi
The Pink Chiquitas1987Betty / Meteor (voice)
The Serpent Warriors1985Snake Priestess
Miami Vice1985TV SeriesPriestess Chata
A Night on the Town1983TV Movie
Butterflies in Heat1979Lola
To Kill a Cop1978TV MoviePaula
Police Woman1978TV SeriesAmelia
Friday Foster1975Madame Rena
The Protectors1974TV SeriesCarrie Blaine
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife1972TV MovieLady
The Chastity Belt1972Scheherazade
Batman1967-1968TV SeriesThe Catwoman
Mission: Impossible1967TV SeriesTina Mara
I Spy1965TV SeriesAngel
Ben Casey1965TV SeriesDanielle Taylor
Synanon1965Betty Coleman
Uncle Tom's Cabin1965Singer (uncredited)
Burke's Law1965TV SeriesHonoria De Witt
BBC Sunday-Night Play1962TV Mini-SeriesSally Carrington
Drei Männer spinnen1962TV Movie
Saint of Devil's Island1961Annette
Play of the Week1961TV Series
Playhouse 901958TV SeriesThe Queen
Anna Lucasta1958Anna Lucasta
St. Louis Blues1958Gogo Germaine
The Mark of the Hawk1957Renee
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre1956TV SeriesTheodora 'Teddy' Hicks
Omnibus1955TV SeriesSalome
All Star Revue1953TV SeriesGuest Vocalist
You Are There1953TV SeriesDonna Marina
Parigi è sempre Parigi1951Cabaret Singer / Herself
Casbah1948Katherine Dunham Group Dancer (uncredited)
The Simpsons2010TV SeriesEartha Kitt
Wonder Pets!2009TV SeriesCool Cat
The Emperor's New School2006-2008TV SeriesYzma
Behind the Director's Son's Cut2007Video shortFreya
American Dad!2007TV SeriesFortune Teller
And Then Came Love2007Mona
My Life as a Teenage Robot2003-2007TV SeriesVexus
Kronk's New Groove2005VideoYzma (voice)
Preaching to the Choir2005Ms. Nettie
Escape from Cluster Prime2005TV MovieVexus (voice)
Holes2003Madame Zeroni
Emperor's New Groove2001Video GameYzma (voice)
Santa, Baby!2001TV MovieEmerald (voice)
Feast of All Saints2001TV MovieLola Dede
The Emperor's New Groove2000Yzma (voice)
Welcome to New York2000TV SeriesJune
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child2000TV SeriesThe Snow Queen
The Famous Jett Jackson1999TV SeriesAlbertine Whethers
The Proteus Chronicles1998Doctor
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story1998VideoBagheera (voice)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died1998Cult Leader
The Wild Thornberrys1998TV SeriesLioness #1
Ill Gotten Gains1997The Wood (voice)
Harriet the Spy1996Agatha K. Plummer
The Nanny1996TV SeriesEartha Kitt
Living Single1995TV SeriesJacqueline Richards
New York Undercover1995TV SeriesMrs. Stubbs
The Magic School Bus1995TV SeriesMrs. Franklin
Fatal Instinct1993First Trial Judge
Matrix1993TV SeriesSister Rowena
Jack's Place1993TV SeriesIsabel Lang
Boomerang1992Lady Eloise
Ernest Scared Stupid1991Old Lady Hackmore
Living Doll1990Mrs. Swartz
Erik the Viking1989Freya

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie2016performer: "C'est si bon"
I Saw the Light2015performer: "Santa Baby"
The Originals2015TV Series performer - 1 episode
X-Men: Days of Future Past2014performer: "C'est si bon"
The Wolf of Wall Street2013performer: "C'est si bon"
Half of a Yellow Sun2013performer: "Santa Baby"
Le Week-End2013performer: "Apres Moi"
The Borrowers2011TV Movie performer: "Santa Baby"
Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs2011TV Movie documentary performer: "Santa Baby"
So You Think You Can Dance2011TV Series performer - 1 episode
I Heart You Pare2011TV Series 1 episode
Misfits2010TV Series performer - 1 episode
Lie to Me2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
Qwerty2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
An Evening with Eartha Kitt2009TV Movie documentary performer: "Ain't Misbehavin'", "La Vie en Rose", "Here's to Life"
13 heures le journal2008TV Series performer - 1 episode
Da Lintsi -koodi2007TV Movie lyrics: "Uska Dara"
The Emperor's New School2007TV Series performer - 1 episode
P22007performer: "Santa Baby"
My Name Is Earl2005TV Series performer - 1 episode
Kronk's New Groove2005Video performer: "Feel Like A Million"
Huips2004TV Movie performer: "Champagne Taste"
Miss Match2003TV Series performer - 1 episode
Something's Gotta Give2003performer: "Je Cherche un Homme", "C'est si bon"
The O.C.2003TV Series performer - 1 episode
Elf2003performer: "Santa Baby" 1953
Friday After Next2002performer: "Santa Baby"
The Sweatbox2002Documentary performer: "Snuff Out the Lights" - uncredited
Wie die Karnickel2002performer: "I Love Men"
Laurel Canyon2002performer: "C'est si bon"
Mein Bruder, der Vampir2001performer: "I Want To Be Evil"
The Sopranos2001TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 54th Annual Tony Awards2000TV Special performer: "When It Ends", "Wild"
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child2000TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Roseanne Show1998TV Series performer - 1 episode
Thank God He Met Lizzie1997performer: "Santa Baby"
Rites of Winter1996performer: "Santa Baby"
The Nanny1996TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Harriet the Spy1996performer: "Uska Dara"
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar1995performer: "Je Cherche Un Homme I Wan't A Man"
Mixed Nuts1994performer: "Santa Baby"
A Man of No Importance1994performer: "Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love"
Jools Holland's Happening1991TV Series performer - 1 episode
Driving Miss Daisy1989performer: "SANTA BABY" 1953
The Pink Chiquitas1987performer: "The Boy from Ipenema", "Uska Dara- A Turkish Tale", "She's Hot'
The Mike Douglas Show1979TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Chastity Belt1972performer: "A Knight For My Nights"
I Spy1965TV Series performer - 1 episode
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers1962TV Special performer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
The Voice of Firestone1958TV Series performer - 1 episode
St. Louis Blues1958performer: "Yellow Dog Blues", "Careless Love", "Friendless Blues", "Chantez Les Bas", "Saint Louis Blues"
The Mark of the Hawk1957performer: "This Man Is Mine"
The Ed Sullivan Show1955TV Series performer - 1 episode
New Faces1954performer: "C'est si bon" uncredited, "Love Is a Simple Thing", "Santa Baby", "Uska Dara", "Bal Petit Bal", "Monotonous"

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Pretty Dudes2017TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Oz2001TV Series special thanks - 1 episode
Hamlet2000special thanks
Unzipped1995Documentary very special thanks
Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido1985TV Short thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
An Evening with Eartha Kitt2009TV Movie documentaryHerself
Breakfast2008TV SeriesHerself
Loose Women2007TV SeriesHerself
American Masters2005-2006TV Series documentaryHerself
Larry King Live2005TV SeriesHerself
74th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade2005TV SpecialHerself
The Many Faces of Catwoman2005Video documentary shortHerself - Host and Narrator
Biography1998-2004TV Series documentaryHerself
The 2nd Annual TV Land Awards2004TV SpecialHerself
Hollywood Squares2003TV SeriesHerself - Panelist
Anything But Love2002Herself
The Sweatbox2002DocumentaryHerself
Inside TV Land: African Americans in Television2002TV Movie documentaryHerself
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'2002DocumentaryHerself
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration2001TV Special documentaryHerself
Oz2001TV SeriesHerself
The Rosie O'Donnell Show1997-2000TV SeriesHerself
The 54th Annual Tony Awards2000TV SpecialHerself - Performer & Nominee: Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Charlie Rose2000TV SeriesHerself - Guest
VH-1 Where Are They Now?1999TV Series documentaryCatwoman
The Roseanne Show1998TV SeriesHerself
Ageless Heroes1998TV Movie documentaryHerself
Viva Variety1997TV SeriesHerself - Musical Guest
The Chris Rock Show1997TV SeriesHerself
27th NAACP Image Awards1996TV SpecialHerself
Jeopardy!1996TV SeriesHerself - Celebrity Contestant
The Nanny1996TV SeriesHerself
Lauren Hutton and...1996TV SeriesHerself
James Dean and Me1995TV Movie documentaryHerself (uncredited)
Unzipped1995DocumentaryHerself (uncredited)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast1994TV SeriesHerself
RuPaul's Christmas Ball1993TV SpecialHerself
Reading Rainbow1993TV SeriesHerself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993TV SeriesHerself
Maury1992TV SeriesHerself
Showtime at the Apollo1992TV SeriesHerself - Guest Host
Jools Holland's Happening1991TV SeriesHerself
Desperately Seeking Roger1991TV Movie documentaryHerself
The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards1991TV SpecialHerself
A Tribute to Terry Thomas1990TV MovieHerself
The Marsha Warfield Show1990TV SeriesHerself
The Geraldo Rivera Show1990TV SeriesHerself
Forty Minutes1990TV Series documentaryHerself
The Unforgettable Nat 'King' Cole1989TV Movie documentaryHerself
Wogan1989TV SeriesHerself
P.O.V.1989TV Series documentaryHerself
Live with Kelly and Michael1989TV SeriesHerself
The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross1987TV SeriesHerself
Ebony/Jet Showcase1987TV SeriesHerself
Royal Variety Performance 19871987TV MovieHerself
Fame, Fortune and Romance1986TV SeriesHerself
Entre amigos1986TV SeriesHerself - Musical Guest
C'est encore mieux l'après-midi1986TV SeriesHerself
Brown Sugar1986TV Mini-Series documentaryHerself
Ladybirds1984TV SeriesHerself
Musikladen1983TV Series
La nuit des Césars1983TV Series documentaryHerself
Tom Cottle: Up Close1982TV SeriesHerself
All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story1982DocumentaryHerself
WWF Club1980TV SeriesHerself (Guest)
Everyday1979TV SeriesHerself
The Mike Douglas Show1964-1979TV SeriesHerself - Vocalist / Herself - Actress / Vocalist / ...
The 1st Annual Black Achievement Awards1978TV SpecialHerself
The Merv Griffin Show1973-1978TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Singer
The 32nd Annual Tony Awards1978TV SpecialHerself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Musical
Parkinson1973-1978TV SeriesHerself
Over Easy1977-1978TV SeriesHerself
The Paul Ryan Show1977TV SeriesHerself
Good Morning America1977TV SeriesHerself
The Good Old Days1972-1976TV SeriesHerself - Performer
Stars on Sunday1970-1975TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1963-1973TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Guest
Russell Harty Plus1972TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The David Frost Show1969-1971TV SeriesHerself
Glamour...1970TV SeriesHerself
Eartha Kitt Sings1970TV SeriesHerself - Host
Münchner Bilderbogen1970TV Series documentaryHerself
Vergißmeinnicht1970TV Series documentaryHerself - Musician
Frost on Sunday1968-1970TV SeriesHerself
The Barbara McNair Show1970TV SeriesHerself
Letters to Laugh-In1969TV SeriesHerself
Della1969TV SeriesHerself
Romeo und Julia 701969TV Mini-SeriesHerself
The Other Americans1969TV Movie documentaryHerself
International Cabaret1968TV SeriesHerself
The Hollywood Squares1966-1968TV SeriesHerself - Panelist
The Pat Boone Show1968TV SeriesHerself
P.D.Q.1967TV SeriesHerself
All About People1967Documentary shortNarrator (voice)
The Celebrity Game1964-1965TV SeriesHerself - Panelist / Herself / Herself - Celebrity Panelist
Blackpool Night Out1965TV SeriesHerself
The Eartha Kitt Show1965TV MovieHerself - Host
Juke Box Jury1962-1965TV SeriesHerself - Panellist
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium1957-1965TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Top of the Bill
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life1965TV SeriesHerself
That Regis Philbin Show1964-1965TV SeriesHerself - Guest Co-Host / Herself / Herself - Co-Host
On Stage1964TV SeriesHerself - Singer
On Broadway Tonight1964TV SeriesHerself
The Object Is1964TV SeriesHerself - Panelist
Stump the Stars1963TV SeriesHerself - Guest Panelist
The Ed Sullivan Show1952-1963TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Singer / Singer
The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards1962TV SpecialHerself - Presenter
The Jack Paar Tonight Show1962TV SeriesHerself
The Tonight Show1962TV SeriesHerself - Vocalist
Here's Hollywood1962TV SeriesHerself
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers1962TV SpecialHerself - Singer
What's My Line?1954-1961TV SeriesHerself - Mystery Guest / Herself
The Mike Wallace Interview1960TV SeriesHerself
The Juke Box Jury1959TV SeriesHerself
The Ben Hecht Show1959TV SeriesHerself - Singer / Actress
The Voice of Firestone1958TV SeriesHerself
The Big Record1958TV SeriesHerself
The Nat King Cole Show1957TV SeriesHerself - Singer
The Arthur Murray Party1957TV SeriesHerself
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z1957TV SeriesHerself
Film Fanfare1956TV SeriesHerself
Person to Person1954TV Series documentaryHerself
The Morning Show1954TV SeriesHerself
Your Show of Shows1954TV SeriesHerself - Guest Perfomrer
New Faces1954Herself
The Colgate Comedy Hour1954TV SeriesHerself - Singer
The Red Buttons Show1953TV SeriesHerself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Unsung Hollywood2016TV Series documentaryHerself
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark2014DocumentaryHerself
Glasgow: Big Night Out2014TV Movie documentaryHerself
The Frollo Show2012-2013TV SeriesYzma
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness2010TV Series documentaryOld Lady Hackmore
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards2009TV SpecialHerself - Memorial Tribute
13 heures le journal2008TV SeriesHerself
TV's Funniest Music Moments2008TV MovieHerself
American Experience2005TV Series documentaryHerself
Carmen and Geoffrey2005DocumentaryHerself
It's Black Entertainment2002TV Special documentaryHerself
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood1998TV Movie documentaryHerself
The Real Las Vegas1996TV Series documentaryHerself
Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion1995TV Movie documentaryHerself
Heroes of Comedy1995TV Series documentary
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år1993TV Movie documentaryHerself - Performer
¡Qué noche la de aquel año!1987TV SeriesHerself
The Ed Sullivan Show1962TV SeriesHerself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2010Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in an Animated ProgramWonder Pets! (2006)
2008AnnieAnnie AwardsBest Voice Acting in an Animated Television ProductionThe Emperor's New School (2006)
2008Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in an Animated ProgramThe Emperor's New School (2006)
2007AnnieAnnie AwardsBest Voice Acting in an Animated Television ProductionThe Emperor's New School (2006)
2007Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in an Animated ProgramThe Emperor's New School (2006)
2001AnnieAnnie AwardsOutstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature ProductionThe Emperor's New Groove (2000)
2001OFTA Film AwardOnline Film & Television AssociationBest Voice-Over PerformanceThe Emperor's New Groove (2000)
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameRecordingOn February 8, 1960. At 6656 Hollywood Blvd.

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2001Black ReelBlack Reel AwardsTheatrical - Best Supporting ActressThe Emperor's New Groove (2000)
1996Image AwardImage AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesLiving Single (1993)
1966Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a DramaI Spy (1965)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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