Known for:
- Santa, Baby
- Human rights activism
- "Sex kitten", i.e. sex symbol
- 'C'est Si Bon' (hit record)
- Bi-racial
- Once called the “most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles
- Most notable for her sultry, housecat-purr of a voice and indomitable, lioness-tough spirit.
- Won two Emmy awards
- She remained a fixture on the cabaret circuit, having maintained her figure through a vigorous fitness regimen
- Catwoman
Love life:
Notes:
- Mrs. Patterson
- Wild Party
- Performed at Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle regularly in her 70s (last recording is Eartha Kitt, Live at the Carlyle
- Film: "The Mark of the Hawk"
- Film: "Harriet the Spy"