With her sultry drawl and feline charisma, the singer and actor oozed sophistication. But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927, had the toughest of childhoods. In History looks at how she ...

Feelings were mutual, but the affair never came to anything because his mother opposed it." Kitt later said that she wished Loew had been the father of her children. More about Eartha Kitt and Arthur ...

and Eartha Kitt with a screenplay by Sachar himself. It follows main character Stanley Yelnats, who’s sent to a correctional facility when he’s falsely accused of theft. While he’s serving ...