'We had to eat whatever we could dig out of the ground': How Eartha Kitt rose from 'extreme poverty' to superstardom
The sultry star of Batman and The Emperor's New Groove was given away by her mother and never knew her father.
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'We had to eat whatever we could dig out of the ground': How Eartha Kitt rose from 'extreme poverty' to superstardom
But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927 ... to become a star of stage and screen – and the first black Catwoman. Born Eartha Mae Keith on a South Carolina cotton plantation on 17 ...