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Eartha Kitt on Film, Stage, and Screen |
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Eartha on TV | ||||||||
Series | Filmed | Role | Episode | Ep # | Aired | Available | Note | |
Your Show of Shows (Ed Sullivan) | 1950 | self | 5/29/1954 | 17 different appearances | ||||
Omnibus | 1952 | Salome | Salome | 12/18/1955 | ||||
Ben Casey | 1961 | Horse Named Stravinsky | 4.31 | 5/17/1965 | 16 MM | Plays a doctors wife with a drug problem | ||
Burke's Law | 1963 | Witch Doctor | Who Killed the Rest? | 2.25 | 3/17/1965 | |||
Celebrity Game, The | 1964 | self | "Guest Panelist" | |||||
I Spy | 1965 | Loser, The | 1.6 | 10/20/1965 | DVD | Emmy Nomination "Outstanding single performance by an actress in a drama role." | ||
Mission:Impossible | 1966 | Tina Mara | Traitor, The | 1.26 | 4/15/1967 | DVD | ||
Batman | 1966 | Catwoman | Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | 3.14 | 12/14/1967 | Bootleg | Go to Eartha's Catwoman Page. | |
Batman | 1966 | Catwoman | Funny Feline Felonies | 3.16 | 12/28/1967 | Bootleg | Go to Eartha's Catwoman Page. | |
Batman | 1966 | Catwoman | Joke's on Catwoman, The | 3.17 | 1/4/1968 | Bootleg | Go to Eartha's Catwoman Page. | |
Protectors, The | 1972 | Carrie Blaine | A Pocket Full of Posies | VHS (PAL) | ||||
Miami Vice | 1984 | Sister Rowena | Whatever Works | 2.2 | 10/04/1985 | Voodoo expert | ||
Forty Minutes: Adventures in the Skin Trade | 1990 | self | UK TV | |||||
Matrix | 1993 | Sister Rowena | Moths to a Flame | 1.5 | 3/29/1993 | Eartha as a motorcycle riding nun. | ||
Magic School Bus, The | 1994 | voice of Mrs Franklin - Keesha's Grandmother | Going Batty | |||||
Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast | 1994 | self | Batmantis | 8 | 9/30/1994 | |||
New York Undercover | 1994 | Mrs Stubbs | Student Affairs | 2.7 | 10/12/1995 | |||
Living Single | 1993 | Jacqueline Richards | He Works Hard for the Money | 3.8 | 10/19/1995 | * Eartha was nominated for an Image award for this role as "Outstanding single performance by an actress in a comedy series." | ||
Nanny, The | 1993 | self | A Pup in Paris | 3.27 | 5/20/1996 | |||
Nanny, The | 1993 | self | Tart with Heart, The | 4.1 | 9/18/1996 | uncredited | ||
RuPaul Show, The | 1996 | self | Coocking Woman | |||||
Wild Thornberrys, The | 1998 | voice of Lioness #1 | Flood Warning | 1.1 | 9/1/1998 | Voice | ||
Rosanne Show, The | 1998 | self | 10/30/1998 | Halloween show like only Rosanne can do. Eartha and Rosanne fly in dressed as the Wicked Witches from stage show "Wizard of Oz". | ||||
Famous Jett Jackson | 1998 | Albertine Whethers | Field of Dweebs | 2.1 | 8/22/1999 | |||
Welcome to New York | 2000 | June | Jim Get's an Apartment | 1.3 | 10/25/2000 | recurring role as a neighbor | ||
Welcome to New York | 2000 | June | The Car | 1.5 | 11/08/2000 | recurring role as a neighbor | ||
Oz | 1997 | self | Medium Rare | 4.9 | 1/7/2001 | |||
VH1: 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll | 1999 | VH-1 asked many of today's top music artists to name their choices for the greatest women in Rock 'n Roll and they named Eartha Kitt #89 | ||||||
It's Black Entertainment | 2000 | self | VHS/DVD | archive footage | ||||
Feast of All Saint's (Anne Rice's) | 2001 | Lola Dede | 2001 Mini-Series | |||||
Santa, Baby! | 2001 | voice | CD/DVD | Cartoon about a song writer down on his luck. A few different versions of "Santa Baby" including a Techno version, and version with Patti LaBelle and Vanessa Williams. | ||||
Inside TV Land: African Americans in TV | 2002 | self | VHS | |||||
VH-1 Where Are They Now: Superheros | self | Eartha as catwoman | ||||||
TV Land Awards | self | |||||||
Biography on A&E | 2004 | self | Catwoman | 7/20/2004 | VHS | Stars Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeifer, and Halle Berry | ||
Eartha in Movies and or on DVD | ||||||||
Film | Filmed | Role | Available | Note | ||||
Casbah | 1948 | self/dancer | VHS | Dancer with the Katherine Dunham dance troup. | ||||
White Party USA Presents: Divas of Dance | 2005 | self | 7/25/05 | DVD | Video of "Where is My Man" | |||
New Faces | 1954 | self | VHS | Film version of Broadway show "New Faces of 52" | ||||
Mark of the Hawk, The |
1957 | Renee | VHS/DVD | Sidney Poitier's wife. | ||||
St Louis Blues | 1958 | Gogo Germaine | VHS | night club singer | ||||
Anna Lucasta | 1958 | Anna Lucasta | 6/05 | DVD | ||||
Saint of Devil's Island, The |
1961 | |||||||
Synanon |
1965 | Betty Coleman | bootleg | |||||
Onkel Toms Hutte |
1965 | singer | VHS/CD | uncredited roll,cut from shorter versions of film. Runtime varies from 118min. US version, 125min. French version, 170 min. German version. | ||||
All About People | 1967 | Narrator | ||||||
Up the Chastity Belt |
1971 | Scherazade | VHS* | *UK/Germany only. In only one scene, but Oh, what a scene. | ||||
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife | 1972 | lady | TV Movie | |||||
Friday Foster | 1975 | Madame Rena | VHS/DVD | Blackspoitation Pam Greer film | ||||
To Kill a Cop | 1978 | Paula | TV Movie | |||||
All By Myself | 1982 | self | "The Eartha Kitt Story" bio/documentary | |||||
Night on the Town, A | 1983 | singer | DVD |
Region 2 DVD available at Dress Circle website. Eartha performs "Alexander's Ragtime Band*" and "Love for Sale" *Not available on any other recording! |
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Serpent Warriors, The | 1985 | |||||||
Dragonard | 1987 | Naomi | VHS | Madame of a house of ill repuit. | ||||
Pink Chiquitas, The | 1987 | Voice of Betty, "The Meteor" | VHS | Betty makes occasional purring sounds as she hearls toward Earth(a). | ||||
Erik the Viking | 1989 | Freya | DVD*/VHS* | *available UKand Germany | ||||
Master of Dragonard Hill | 1989 | Naomi | VHS | Madame of a house of ill repuit. Sequal to "Dragonard" | ||||
Living Doll | 1990 | VHS (PAL) | ||||||
Ernest Scared Stupid | 1991 | Old Lady Hackmore | DVD | |||||
Boomerang | 1992 | Lady Eloise | VHS/DVD/Laser | "Mar-r-r-r-cus, I'm not wear-r-r-r-ing any panties" | ||||
Fatal Instinct | 1993 | First Trial Judge | VHS/DVD | One scene. | ||||
Unzipped | 1995 | self | VHS/Laserdisc | Uncredited. Issac Mizrhi also does a brief Eartha imitation. | ||||
Harriet the Spy | 1996 | Agatha K. Plummer | VHS | Eccentric neighbor with pink hair | ||||
Ill Gotten Gains | 1997 | voice of "The Wood" | VHS/DVD | Voice of "The Wood" | ||||
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | 1998 | self | VHS (PAL)* |
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Emperor's New Groove, The | 2000 | voice of "Yzma/Yzma Kitty" |
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Flim originally called "Kingdom of the Sun". Eartha received an "Annie" award as "Outstanding individual achievement for Voice Acting by female performer in an animated feature production." | ||||
Holes | 2002 | Madame Zeroni |
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The Making and Meaning of "We Are Family" | 2002 | self |
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Sweatbox, The | 2002 | self | Documentary (by Sting's wife) on the problems associated with the Disney movie "Emperor's New Groove" | |||||
Anything But Love (Standard Time) |
2003 | self | DVD | musical romance. Eartha performs "Walk That Says Yes" | ||||
On the One | 2004 | in post production Two twins, both raised in Harlem, N.Y., take divergent paths when they grow up. One becomes a minister - while the other becomes a gangster rapper. |
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The Emperor's New School (TV Series) | 2005 | voice of Yzma | filming now TV spin-off of film. |
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The Emperor's New Groove II | 2005 | voice of Yzma | filming now likely a straight to video release |
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Instant Karma | 2005 | in pre-production A visual effects-laden comedy about a safecracker who dies and is reincarnated as a series of animals. |
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Cherrys | 2005 | in pre-production Coming out as a lesbian, a teenage girl (Smollett) learns a wealth of family secrets. |
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Eartha Kitt Live at The Cheltenham Jazz Festival | 2008 | Self | DVD - Region 0 | Available Now. | ||||
Eartha on Stage | ||||||||
Show | Year | Role | Theater | Country | Notes | |||
A Caribbean Rhapsody | Dancer | Prince of Wales | UK | With the Katherine Dunham Dance Troup | ||||
New Faces | 1952 | Royale Theatre | US | Broadway show made into a film. | ||||
Mrs. Patterson | 1955 | Theodora (Teddy) Hicks | National Theatre | US | Broadway Show | |||
Shinbone Alley | 1957 | Mehitabel (a house cat) | Broadway Theatre | US | CD | Broadway Show. Standby for Ms Kitt was Chita Rivera. | ||
Jolly's Progress | 1959 | Jolly Rivers | Longacre Theatre | US | Broadway Play. Standby for Ms Kitt was Cicely Tyson. | |||
The Eartha Kitt Show | 1962 ? | self | Australia | |||||
The Owl and the Pussycat | 1965 | Doris W. | Shubert Theatre | US | ||||
Peg | 1968 | Peg Morrison | Pennsylvania | US | Musical staging and coreography by Katherine Dunham | |||
Live at Tivoli | self | Tilvoli | LP/CD | Performance of her show recorded as "Live at Tivoli" | ||||
The High Bid | 1970 | Mrs. Gracedew | Criterion Theatre | UK | ||||
Bunny | 1972 | Bunny Novak | Criterion Theatre | UK | ||||
Timbuktu ! | 1978 | Sahleem-La-Lume | Mark Hellinger Theatre | US | some songs on LP "Timbuktu" also bootleg video | Tony Nomination - Actress in a Musical | ||
Follies | 1987 | Carlotta Campion | Shaftesbury Theatre | UK | Eartha sang "I'm Still Here" | |||
Eartha Kitt in Concert | 1989 | self | Shaftesbury Theatre | UK | LP/CD | 13 performances. Recorded as the hard to find 2 CD set "Live in London" | ||
Aladdin | 1989 | The Genie | Palace Theatre | UK | ||||
An Evening with Eartha Kitt | self | Carnegie Hall | US | |||||
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill | 1996 | Anthenaeum Theatre | ||||||
The Wizard of Oz | 1998 | Wicked Witch | Madison Square Garden | CD bootleg video |
"The Jitterbug", a musical number cut from the movie was added back in for Ms Kitt. | |||
Wild Party | 2000 | Dolores Montoya | Virginia Theater | CD | Tony Nomination - Featured Actress in a Musical | |||
Cinderella | 2002 | The Fairy Godmother | The Kennedy Center | bootleg video | ||||
Nine | 2003 | Liliane La Fleur |
Eugene O'Neill Theatre | US | Eartha returns to Broadway | |||
Books by Eartha | ||||||||
Title | Year | |||||||
Thursday's Child | 1956 | Hard Cover Paperback | ||||||
Alone with Me | 1976 | Hardback | ||||||
I'm Still Here - Confessions of a Sex Kitten | 1991 | Hardback Paperback | ||||||
Rejuvinate! It's Never Too Late | 2001 | Hardcover/CD (Audio Books) |
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