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 ...

But Eartha Kitt ... first black Catwoman. Celebrated by Orson Welles as the "most exciting woman in the world", and smeared by the CIA as a "sadistic nymphomaniac", Eartha Kitt had an ...