Singer, actress, and legendary siren Eartha Kitt died on Christmas of colon cancer at age 81. She was a star of stage and screen whose career spanned Parisian cabaret, musical albums, Broadway shows, films, and television. Here's the New York Times obituary. I'm mentioning in a children's media blog because of her work in recent years as the evil yet sultry voice of Yzma in Disney's film The Emperor's New Groove and the television spin-off The Emperor's New School, as well as work on shows like Frederator's My Life as a Teenage Robot and of course as Catwoman in the original Batman. This short tribute has some videos of a range of her work, and here's some of her delicious Disney work (for which she won consecutive Daytime Emmys in 2007 and 2008):
Speaking in the original 2000 film:
And singing in the television show, including her trademark rolled Rrrrrr's (besides being the original catwoman she spoke seven languages, I believe):
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