Biography
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season. She also was famous for being the voice of Yzma in ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
2024
as Self (archive footage)
An aspiring singer is tasked with promoting the music catalogue of his great-grandfather, the famous songwriter Jimmy McHugh, recorded by everyone fro...

Catwoman vs. the White House
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Newly discovered audio and video tells the full story between Eartha Kitt's run in with the President and the First Lady in 1968.

Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the history of Catwoman from DC.

The Apollo
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

Always at The Carlyle
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
2016
as Self / Catwoman (archive footage)
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image footage featuring African-American actors and singers f...

Året var 1960
2010
as Self (archive footage)
A brand new decade begins. There is unrest in many places in Africa and Sweden is sending UN troops to the Congo. The Shah of Persia visits Stockholm ...

I Know a Woman Like That
2009
as Self
Actress Virginia Madsen collaborates with her mother Elaine Madsen to produce this documentary, which profiles a collection of fascinating woman betw...

And Then Came Love
2007
as Mona
Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson's six-year old son Jake is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper, wh...

Kronk's New Groove
2005
as Yzma (voice)
Kronk, now chef and Head Delivery Boy of Mudka's Meat Hut, is fretting over the upcoming visit of his father. Kronk's father always disapproved of you...

Preaching to the Choir
2005
as Sister Nettie
Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers Teshawn and Wesley Tucker have taken radically different paths in life. Wes has be...

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005
Thanks
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to De...

Once Upon a Halloween
2005
as Yzma
On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you sever...

My Life as a Teenage Robot: Escape from Cluster Prime
2005
as Vexus (voice)
A Nickelodeon television special. Jenny/XJ9 accidentally ruins everybody's day by causing massive collateral damage to the town. Shunned by everyone b...

James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
as Self
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.

The Many Faces of Catwoman
2005
as Narrator (voice)
History of the character Catwoman

Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
2004
as Self
Elvira hosts this humorous look at movie monsters and facts about the real animals on which they're based. Included: clips from films; and interviews ...

The Legendary Nat King Cole
2004
as Self
The life and career of one of America's leading cultural figures, told through video clips and rare photos.

The World of Nat King Cole
2004
as Self
Combining rare original archive footage, home movies and authored by 40 intimate interviews with friends and celebrity fans this feature length film c...

Holes
2003
as Madame Zeroni
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that...

The Sweatbox
2002
as Self
Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of 'Kingdom of the Sun'/'The Emperor's New Groove' as part of the deal that or...

It's Black Entertainment
2002
as Self (archive footage)
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Willi...

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
as Self
Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, ...

Santa, Baby!
2001
as Emerald (voice)
Songwriter Noel is struggling to write a hit song, and so he takes his frustrations out on his family. His daughter Dakota is granted one wih for doin...

Feast of All Saints
2001
as Lola Dede
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught b...

The Emperor's New Groove
2000
as Yzma (voice)
When self-centered Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his scheming advisor, he is forced to rely on good-hearted peasant Pacha to get back home.

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
as Bagheera (voice)
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
1998
as Cult Leader
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!

Ill Gotten Gains
1997
as The Wood (voice)
WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but...

Harriet the Spy
1996
as Agatha K. Plummer
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her ...

Unzipped
1995
as Self
Isaac Mizrahi, one of the most successful designers in high fashion, plans his fall 1994 collection.

James Dean and Me
1995
as Self (uncredited)
A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.

RuPaul's Christmas Ball
1993
as Self
Variety special featuring guests from the downtown New York club scene to stellar artists including Nirvana and Elton John.

Fatal Instinct
1993
as Trial Judge
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an ass...

Rhythm Divine - History of Disco Music
1992
as Self (archive footage)
The evolution of disco music through interviews and clips - Acid House, House, Disco, Funk, Italo-Disco, Italodance. Interviewed – Baby Ford, Deee-Lit...

Boomerang
1992
as Lady Eloise
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing ...

Ernest Scared Stupid
1991
as Old Lady Hackmore
Well-intentioned, eternally bumbling Ernest P. Worrell accidentally releases an evil demon from its sacred tomb. As the demon flexes its power and goe...

Desperately Seeking Roger
1991
Julian Clary goes on a journey around New York to find Roger Whittaker.

Adventures in the Skin Trade
1990
as Self
John Pitman meets a selection of women to ascertain their views on the wearing of coats made of fur.

Living Doll
1990
as Mrs. Swartz
Howard, a shy morgue worker, falls in love with a girl who ends up in the morgue, but he doesn't let that stop him. Howard has a secret - he is in lov...

Erik the Viking
1989
as Freya
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allo...

The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
1989
as Self
Enjoy the smooth voice and cool rhythms of legendary American recording artist Nat "King" Cole with this music set, which includes popular hits like "...

Master of Dragonard Hill
1987
as Naomi
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and susp...

Dragonard
1987
as Naomi
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sug...

The Pink Chiquitas
1987
as Betty, the Meteor (voice)
A pink meteor controlled by aliens lands near a small town and turns the local women into nymphos. A deputy sheriff and a local private eye investigat...

The Serpent Warriors
1985
as Snake Priestess
A zoologist is called to a construction site that has been plagued by snakes. He finds out that the place once was the ancient headquarters of a snake...

A Night on the Town
1983
A 1980s photographer and advertising designer trying on clothes in a vintage clothing store find themselves transported to the 1930s.

All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
1982
as Self
Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

Tropic of Desire
1979
as Lola
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various politi...

To Kill a Cop
1978
as Paula
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are o...

Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Composers
1977
as Narrator
A short 1977 documentary about the originator of the ragtime rhythm.

Friday Foster
1975
as Madame Rena
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in Am...

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
as Lady
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's na...

Up the Chastity Belt
1972
as Scheherazade
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity ...

Synanon
1965
as Betty Coleman
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965
as Singer (uncredited)
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slav...

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
as Self
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

Heart of Darkness
1958
as The Queen
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Anna Lucasta
1958
as Anna Lucasta
The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

St. Louis Blues
1958
as Gogo Germaine
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he...

The Mark of the Hawk
1957
as Renee
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their lan...

Mrs Patterson
1956
as Theodora "Teddy" Hicks
It's 1920 in a small town in Kentucky, and Teddy, a teenage girl, dreams of escaping from her boredom at home to the excitement of Chicago.

New Faces
1954
as Eartha Kitt
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then ma...

Paris Is Always Paris
1951
as Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure,...

Casbah
1948
as Katherine Dunham Group Dancer
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.