Eartha Kitt

Actress Eartha Kitt, as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1952. Image courtesy of Marquette University Archives

Singer Nancy Wilson, actress Eartha Kitt, musician/dancer/actor Sammy Davis Jr., actor Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy Jr. (Motwon Label founder) and actor Marlon Brando going to Martin Luther King’s Funeral

Eartha Kitt in a recording studio circa 1955 (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Eartha Kitt 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt, NYC, 1952

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

Photo of Eartha Kitt Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Eartha Kitt 1978 at New York's Waldorf Astoria arrives on the shoulders of Tony Carroll, Mr Univers 1977

Eartha Kitt in a recording studio circa 1955 (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt, 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt by J. Kriegsmann

Eartha Kitt / Halsman

Eartha Kitt 1960 Hulton Archive

Eartha Kitt in her dressing room backstage at New Faces of 1952.Image by Bettmann/CORBIS

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt, 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt June1952 by Gordon Parks

Eartha Kitt. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt and Sammy Davis, Jr. filming Anna Lucasta, 1958. Bettmann / Corbis

Eartha Kitt, by Ernst Haas NYC, 1952

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt 1957 Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Eartha Kitt

Sammy Davis Jr. and Eartha Kitt in a still from the film, Anna Lucasta directed by Arnold Lavin, 1958. (Photo by United Artists/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt with Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in 1957

Eartha Kitt hugs Nat King Cole, playing the piano in the role of W.C Hardy, in scene from the 1958 movies "Saint Louis Blues"

Eartha Kitt by Arthur Rothstein for Look Magazine (1953)

Eartha Kitt by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress Washington DC

30th May 1956: American singer Eartha Kitt at the Mayfair Hotel, London, with her cats 'Mishak' and 'Willow'. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt, 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt, 1980

The diva on stage (1961). Photo Bettmann

Eartha Kitt, 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt 1955 by George Silk

Eartha Kitt and James Dean by Dennis Stock

1955, Eartha Kitts dances in a televised treatment of Oscar Wilde's play Salomé

Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, 1952

Eartha Kitt circa 1955. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt arrives at London’s Paddington Station for a two-month cabaret engagement in 1960.(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt, 1958

Circa 1950: Eartha Kitt dining in a restaurant. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt and James Dean by Dennis Stock

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt, posed, 1958. (Photo by Harry Hammond/V&A Images/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman in Batman (the 60's series)

1957: American singer and actress Eartha Kitt stars in the stage show 'Zarak' at the Leicester Square Odeon, London. Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images

Eartha Kitt scene from the 1958 movies Saint Louis Blues

Eartha Kitt Bettman Archive

Eartha Kitt June 1952 by Gordon Parks

Charles “Teenie” Harris, Eartha Kitt leaping though poster to launch a Citizens Committee on Hill District Renewal program, with police officer Harvey Adams, Vine and Colwell Streets, Hill District, May 1966 black-and-white negative Heinz Family Fund Teenie Harris Archive © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Eartha Kitt by Phillipe Halsman

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman in Batman (the 60's series)

Eartha Kitt (1927 - 2008) exercising at the Town and Country Health Salon in Knightsbridge, London, 1st April 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Eartha Kitt and James Dean by Dennis Stock

Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, 1952

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman in Batman (the 60's series)

Eartha Kitt, London, 1988 by Steve Pyke

Eartha Kitt sits on a carousel horse as she performs on Ed Sullivan's CBS variety show 'Toast of the Town,' New York, August 22, 1954. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)