"There were two different people that coexisted within my mother," Kitt Shapiro tells PEOPLE. "One was Eartha Kitt. The other was Eartha Mae. They were two distinctive parts that made one person." ...

In a word, she was...purrrfect. Preternaturally alluring and charismatic, Eartha Kitt achieved worldwide fame at a time when most mixed-race performers couldn’t even get hired. Whether she was acting ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Born in Orangeburg County in the small town of North, S.C., Eartha Kitt was raised in poverty on a cotton plantation where she was subjected to rejection and colorism due to her ...

Eartha Kitt may not have had nine lives, but she came close. First, she was a dirt-poor girl from North, S.C. Then she became a nightclub sensation, a muse to Orson Welles, a slinky recording artist, ...

Ashlee Olivia Jones plays Eartha Kiitt in Eartha Kitt C'est Si Bon Dani Lane, from Kenan, will play Eartha Mae, the young Eartha Kitt in Eartha Kitt C'est Si Bon Eartha Kitt C'est Si Bon is ...

The 'Santa Baby' cemented herself as a Christmas music icon and died alongside her daughter on Christmas Day 2008.

"My mother survived so much," Eartha Kitt's daughter Kitt Shapiro tells PEOPLE ahead of the release of her memoir Eartha & Kitt Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over ...