Eartha Kitt

The 1966 Batman Villains - Eartha Kitt (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/cat2.htm).
. Kitt lent her distinctive voice to the role of Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove and is currently doing other voice over work such as the voice of Queen Vexus on My Life as a Teenage Robot. Leigh has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Blvd. One of her more unusual roles was as Kaa the python in a 1994 BBC Radio adaptation of The Jungle Book. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, Sussex, London, England. In the Batman television series of the 1960s, she played "Catwoman" in succession to Julie Newmar. The actress died of chronic tuberculosis in her London home.

Eartha Kitt made her film debut in 1958, and was once described by Orson Welles as "the most exciting girl in the world". Joan Plowright, third wife and widow of Olivier, later claimed that during much of Olivier's marriage to Leigh he was having a longterm homosexual relationship with the American actor Danny Kaye. Her hits include "Let's Do It," "An Old-Fashioned Millionaire" and "Santa Baby.". Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor John Merivale. She was born illegitimate in South Carolina, but jokes about the fact that many audiences assume her to be from somewhere more exotic. In 1960, she and Olivier divorced on supposedly friendly terms. Eartha Mae Kitt, born January 17, 1927, is an actress and singer. She had also been plagued by manic-depression for some time, which was believed to be a factor in the failure to cure her ailment.

By the early 1960s Leigh had suffered two miscarriages, and the severity of the tuberculosis was incapacitating. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse. In 1944, the actress was diagnosed as having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung.

At the time, both were married (Olivier to actress Jill Esmond who was pregnant when the affair began). The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair. In 1940, Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married British theatre star Laurence Olivier. Leigh is best known, however, for her role of Scarlett O'Hara in the American film Gone With the Wind (1939), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1935, she began her film career with such movies as The Village Squire, Things are Looking Up, and Look Up and Laugh. Her first play was The Green Sash, though it was Mask of Virtue that really brought her to stardom. Leigh's career began on the stage. She was married in 1932 to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1933.

She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England, along with fellow actress-to-be Maureen O'Sullivan. She and her parents later moved to England, where young Leigh grew up. Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913–July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. Ship of Fools (1965).

Stone (1961). The Roman Spring of Mrs. The Deep Blue Sea (1955). A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Gone With the Wind (1939). Martins Lane (1938). St. A Yank At Oxford (1938).