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Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white / Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy.

Eartha and Kitt (other title)
Shapiro, Kitt, (author.). Levy, Patricia Weiss, (author.).

Summary:

Eartha Kitt, a self-described "poor cotton picker from the South" (even as she collected Tony, Oscar, Grammy and Emmy nominations--her "Santa Baby" still defines pop Christmas music), arrived in New York City in 1935 at age eight, rescued from an abusive South Carolina childhood. A diligent student "up North," she was performing professionally by 1950, establishing her "feline, sultry and exotic" style. She had Kitt in 1961, during a brief marriage to a white man. "I was really the first blood-related 'family' she had ever known," Kitt writes, and they were inseparable, "from the first day of my life to the very last day of hers." iPage

Record details

  • ISBN: 1643137549
  • ISBN: 9781643137544
  • Physical Description: 329 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Pegagus Books edition
  • Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Subject:
Kitt, Eartha.
Kitt, Eartha > Family.
Shapiro, Kitt.
Actresses > United States > Biography.
African American women entertainers > Biography.
Mothers and daughters > Biography.
Singers > United States > Biography.
Women singers > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

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Jacksonville Main Library BIO KITT (Text) 36015000423646 Adult Biography Checked out 08/09/2026