She had a nightmarish childhood, it's amazing it didn't destroy her will to live, and yet she was a self success story and showed extraordinary defiance to those that tried to keep her down,
I'd say that having nothing in her childhood made her a more perfect human being, she has owned this wisdom she has and speaks with much gratitude. We need more people like Eartha in the arts.
She also did over 68 plus TV shows, movies, and voices overs, she also revorded the song Santa Baby, and was on Broadway and played in over 36 musicals and plays, plus was even in a video game!! What a life she lived...
I love her sexy growl! I love her attitude about race, that she belongs to everyone. My grandmother was half Cherokee, half white. Her father had a white family and didn't marry my great-grandmother even though she had several children by him. We don't even know her name. A cousin traced my grandmother's genealogy through DNA and found that, although grandmother and great-grandmother were born on reservation in Oklahoma, their ancestors came from Alabama. Most likely, at least one ancestor marched the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, but they didn't exactly keep records back then. As Eartha touches on, Cherokee people are few and their history has mostly been lost to time. 😢
They did the same thing here in Australia so they figured no records no shame of what they did to the first nations people and as the saying goes dead men tell no tales especially when they are nameless in my mind these were terrible war crimes , it's shocking and so sad for those looking for family ,good luck in any further research ,LOL teddy
She was born in 1927. The first mass produced TV sets available outside of New York City were introduced for public sale in 1946-7. If she had known what a TV set was when she was a child, that would've implied that she had tremendous psychic powers.🤣🤣
I agree, as this was the first thing I thought when I saw the headline. But having watched the clip, I do not recall she even mentions TC at any point - she speaks of not knowing "the movies", but the way she says it (and also the way people in her & Cavett's generation would have used this term) makes it clear that she is talking about cinema. So my impression is that the video title is simply wrong, and that it was written by someone who is either a bit sloppy or who cannot think of any other way of watching movies than TV.
She never mentioned "TV", she said she had no exposure to radio or movies (or indoor plumbing, gas stoves, electric lights, etc.) Whomever wrote the title is to blame for not thinking logically and I hope they change it as it reflects badly on Eartha. When she describes the "box with tiny people inside" she's referring to the radio, not television. This reminds me of all the far-right Obama haters who blame him for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 8 years before he was president. He wasn't even in Congress yet, as he first became the US senator from Illinois in 2005.
@@LazyIRanch None of these errors are my fault. And since you want to make this political for no reason at all, she makes it very clear in the interview that the racusm she faced came mostly from her own black family members, a fact that she repeated in many interviews. You can return to your cry closet now. 🤣🤣
She speaks of radio, magazines, electrification, indoor plumbing and books - all widely available during her childhood - what exactly is your point? that you, in 2022, have a better idea of how Eartha Kitt grew up than Eartha Kitt?!?
@@chevalierdupapillon I'm not from their generation and everyone I know still calls them movies. I have never in my life heard someone say let's go to the cinema. Why do you act as if "the movies" is some ancient phrase?? Once in a while a particularly pretentious young person will insist on calling them "films" for a few years of their life, but even they go back to calling them "movies" after they grow up a little
Eartha was so well spoken
She had a nightmarish childhood, it's amazing it didn't destroy her will to live, and yet she was a self success story and showed extraordinary defiance to those that tried to keep her down,
I'd say that having nothing in her childhood made her a more perfect human being, she has owned this wisdom she has and speaks with much gratitude. We need more people like Eartha in the arts.
She also did over 68 plus TV shows, movies, and voices overs, she also revorded the song Santa Baby, and was on Broadway and played in over 36 musicals and plays, plus was even in a video game!!
What a life she lived...
Her accent is mesmerizing.... truly her own.
Thank you
A beautiful soul is Eartha, and she deserves all her accolades-and this way she speaks-is owned wisdom.
I saw her one time and Dick was right about her having so much charisma. She had that audience once she walked in and connected with everyone.
Fantastic human being, they broke the mold on this one
i love eartha, what an indomitable soul and person of the deepest integrity
an example we can all learn from
What an incredibly positive and lovely person.
The peerless Eartha who has overcome so much and still managed to maintain her voice!
Eartha was a great person and a class act
She was so eloquent
I love her sexy growl!
I love her attitude about race, that she belongs to everyone.
My grandmother was half Cherokee, half white. Her father had a white family and didn't marry my great-grandmother even though she had several children by him. We don't even know her name. A cousin traced my grandmother's genealogy through DNA and found that, although grandmother and great-grandmother were born on reservation in Oklahoma, their ancestors came from Alabama.
Most likely, at least one ancestor marched the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, but they didn't exactly keep records back then. As Eartha touches on, Cherokee people are few and their history has mostly been lost to time. 😢
They did the same thing here in Australia so they figured no records no shame of what they did to the first nations people and as the saying goes dead men tell no tales especially when they are nameless in my mind these were terrible war crimes , it's shocking and so sad for those looking for family ,good luck in any further research ,LOL teddy
Astonishing
God rest her. She went through a lot
Smart caring Woman.
She also described did not know what toaster was either…
She was born in 1927. The first mass produced TV sets available outside of New York City were introduced for public sale in 1946-7.
If she had known what a TV set was when she was a child, that would've implied that she had tremendous psychic powers.🤣🤣
I agree, as this was the first thing I thought when I saw the headline. But having watched the clip, I do not recall she even mentions TC at any point - she speaks of not knowing "the movies", but the way she says it (and also the way people in her & Cavett's generation would have used this term) makes it clear that she is talking about cinema. So my impression is that the video title is simply wrong, and that it was written by someone who is either a bit sloppy or who cannot think of any other way of watching movies than TV.
She never mentioned "TV", she said she had no exposure to radio or movies (or indoor plumbing, gas stoves, electric lights, etc.) Whomever wrote the title is to blame for not thinking logically and I hope they change it as it reflects badly on Eartha.
When she describes the "box with tiny people inside" she's referring to the radio, not television.
This reminds me of all the far-right Obama haters who blame him for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 8 years before he was president. He wasn't even in Congress yet, as he first became the US senator from Illinois in 2005.
@@LazyIRanch None of these errors are my fault. And since you want to make this political for no reason at all, she makes it very clear in the interview that the racusm she faced came mostly from her own black family members, a fact that she repeated in many interviews. You can return to your cry closet now. 🤣🤣
She speaks of radio, magazines, electrification, indoor plumbing and books - all widely available during her childhood - what exactly is your point? that you, in 2022, have a better idea of how Eartha Kitt grew up than Eartha Kitt?!?
@@chevalierdupapillon I'm not from their generation and everyone I know still calls them movies. I have never in my life heard someone say let's go to the cinema. Why do you act as if "the movies" is some ancient phrase??
Once in a while a particularly pretentious young person will insist on calling them "films" for a few years of their life, but even they go back to calling them "movies" after they grow up a little
The catwomen on the 1960's Batman show - when Julie Newmar left the show .
What year was this
Not sure what year but it was late 1970s when Cavett was on PBS.
Probably 1978
When Eartha was a child, hardly anyone had a television. That's no hardship. Radios were the standard.
that's your comment? seriously?
pathetic
Didn't Ertha confront President Johnson at a White House dinner over the war in Vietnam?
Not LBJ, but his wife.
That theme music….yikes!