Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt took off her shoes and walked in stockinged feet.

Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

Eartha Kitt took off her shoes and walked in stockinged feet.

Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

Ingenious, yes, but not director Peter Rowe's ingenuity – it is a steal from New Faces of 1952, the revue which introduced us to Eartha Kitt.

Letters: Big business society 2011

She had a unique sound—something rasping, scratchy, almost squawking and yet it still managed to sound soft; a cross between Eartha Kitt and Minnie Ripperton.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

Eartha Kitt took off her shoes and walked in stockinged feet.

Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

She had a unique sound—something rasping, scratchy, almost squawking and yet it still managed to sound soft; a cross between Eartha Kitt and Minnie Ripperton.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

All that was left was Steinbrenner and Brando, and a three-top by the window of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eartha Kitt and Mitch Hedberg.

The Boss & Brando Do Lunch Jason Gay 2011

Also in Manhattan, a pristine studio with parquet floors in an Art Deco building near the No. 2 and 3 trains at 125th Street beckons buyers with its $85,000 price tag and historic pedigree—Eartha Kitt, Della Reese and Billy Eckstine once lived there.

Picking Over the Low End Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

At a reported 5-foot-8, Hathaway apparently would be Hollywood's tallest Catwoman since the '60s, when Julie Newmar (5-foot-11) and Lee Meriwether (5-foot-8) shared the suit on the campy "Batman" TV series with the incomparable Eartha Kitt.

QUICK POST: Anne Hathaway is the new 'Catwoman' for 'The Dark Knight Rises' [UPDATED] Michael Cavna 2011

She had a unique sound—something rasping, scratchy, almost squawking and yet it still managed to sound soft; a cross between Eartha Kitt and Minnie Ripperton.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011