Towards the end of the luncheon, Lady Bird asked the room of 50 women, from groups such as the Association of Colored Women's Club and the League of Women Voters, including a few governor's wives, for their comments. 18, 1968, for a discussion of what women could do to help eradicate crime on the streets. Lady Bird Johnson subsequently invited Kitt to her Women Doers' Luncheon on Jan. youth group Rebels With a Cause, on behalf of President Lyndon B. In May 1967, she testified before Congress, along with Washington D.C. It got her cast as Catwoman in the ABC's Batman television series in 1967 and won her a 'sex kitten' image that became her lifelong signature until her death in 2008.Īlways outspoken, Kitt was able to channel her celebrity into activism. Kitt's iconic purr and open embrace of her sexuality, notably captured in the 1953 hit holiday song Santa Baby, captivated fans as well as prominent men such as Orson Welles and cosmetics magnate Charles Revson. In 1967, Eartha Kitt was arguably at the height of her fame. But a luncheon at the White House in 1968 nearly left her hard-won career in shambles.īorn into poverty in 1927 on a plantation in North, S.C., to a white father and a black and Cherokee mother, Kitt overcame domestic abuse and abandonment to become a renowned singer, dancer and actress on film, television and on Broadway.
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