Eartha and Kitt- would know how Eartha was treated in the black community in her day because she was light skinned. It's thought her white father was instead Daniel Sturkie. Eartha Kitt has her own channel on youtube, where he uploaded her videos for her followers to watch. John was born circa 1930. Sally was quadroon the product of Jeffersons wifes father (yep!) Their children are a variety of colors. While they do look like siblings, each one has their own particular skin tone, from dark to very light. (It's Never Too Late) (2001, self-help, with Tonya Bolden), Do you know something we don't? [need quotation to verify] Diana Ross has stated that when she was a member of The Supremes, she modeled both her appearance and her singing style after that of Kitt. herculoids gloop and gleep sounds I just heard about Eartha Kitt Day today. Truth to write such a ignorant and narrow minded comment. rcel.async = true; Truth was just expressing an opinion and I can understand that hurts and you feel it is wrong, but its just an opinion and I do think that we shouldnt shun people if they have an opinion that is contrary to ours. The fathers name was blacked out. A British journalist named John Williams wrote a biography about her titled "America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times" and claimed Kitt's dad was Daniel Sturkie, a local white doctor. It was the first of many honors the star received in her illustrious career; she was one of few entertainers to ever receive multiple Tony, Grammy and Emmy award nominations. I have the one of your mom in the mermaid gown throwing something into the air on a vision board. He is named as such in the book America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Miss Eartha Kitt, 2013, by John L. Williams. I do not possess my mothers complexion nor hair texture and my brothers look like her. http://sturkiefamily.com/Html/Sturkie%20Family%20History/pc01/pc01_139.html In 1968 Kitt made statements critical of the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon, reportededly reducing First Lady Lady Bird Johnson to tears. Genetics is a funny thing. Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 - December 25, . Naked Pic of Serena Williams Goes Viral! Hughley Show on WZAK [LISTEN], LOCAL NEWS: Ohio BrewDog Locations Changes Name of a Beer Item to Honor Bengals QB Joe Burrow, LOCAL NEWS: CLE Mayor Justin Bibb on The Decision to Deny 80 Businesses to Remain Open Later, LOCAL NEWS: Travel Ban Issued on Ohio Turnpike Through February 4th, Blame The Black Man: Donald Trump Accuses Barack Obama Of Orchestrating Administrative Leaks, Moonlight Wins Oscar for Best Picture After La La Land Mistakenly Won That Same Award Right Before, Halle Berry Shows Off Her Natural Curls at the Oscars. Jerusha was the daughter of The Rev. Father: Daniel Sturkie (white sharecropper) Mother: Annie Mae Keitt Sister: Pearl (half sister) Some looked in-between or like something else entirely. Kitt's distinctive voice led to work in animation, including the role of Yzma in the Disney film "The Emperor's New Groove" and its spin-off TV series "The Emperor's New School", for which she won an Emmy Award. , ( . Daniel Sturkie. Eartha had a daughter with her former husband, businessperson John William McDonald. Truth couldnt see past her own racial identifiers to actually see YOU. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Deeply Missed and Fondly Remembered- Your Loving Son Singer, by Songstress, Realtor To Wed LOS ANGELES (AP) Enter- tainer, will bt in Memorial Park Cemetery. Judicial Circuit," Stokes continued. You dont have to please no-one. John Elmore Williams and Mary Wolfe. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. You do have your mother features. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Kitt opened up about her childhood and her rise to fame in her 1957 autobiography, Thursdays Child. rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); Some looked black. If you arent familiar with it, I highly recommend you get it, in fact, I think it should be a must-read for everyone. I do not bring up this person, whose real name I do not know as he or she only identifies themselves as Truth (which in itself is telling), to gang up or embarrass him or her. No, I do not sound like her or have her vocal abilities. When she moved back to New York City, The Village Vanguard booked Kitt for nightly performances, leading her to being discovered by a Broadway producer who put her in New Faces of 1952, a musical revue and comedy show that also launched the career of Mel Brooks. She also appeared in a handful of television shows from an Emmy-nominated performance in I Spy (NBC, 1965-68) to Mission Impossible (CBS, 1966-1973) before getting a role that defined her career for years to come. Besides, your mom had mixed DNA anyway. Her daughter, Kitt Shapiro, in an interview with The Guardian, says her mother was denied access to her birth certificate up until then and had to even go through legal procedures to try to gain access. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Her seductive purring performance of the chorus constantly stirring with a long wooden spoon stood out in the musical as a particularly memorable aspect of the song that provided a recipe for mahout, a form of cannabis preparation. Indeed, John Williams, the author of a biography called America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times, believed Kitt's father was Sturkie, though Shapiro says 'there were a lot of names'. But that sort of behavior cannot stop you from living your life and accomplishing your goals. Ive know many, many children who were 1/2 or 1/4 black. I have done a DNA test because I have always known that I had Spanish blood in me, and my DNA test proved it. I want to see if there is any relation. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Eartha had such a distinctive look, her biological child would look like her in SOME way. Kitt reprised Yzma a few years later in the DVD follow-up Kronks New Groove and in the spin-off series, The Emperors New School (Disney Channel, 2006-08), a performance that won her an Emmy award in 2008. There were a lot of names." I know that. Another woman had parents whose mother was a blonde, brown eyed Italian and father was Japanese. Im so sorry you had to deal with that nonsense. One of the reasons why Kitt was born white (apart from the color of her father) is that Earthas father was also white. Something you said definitely struck a cord with me as I had to smile when you mentioned The Sneetches, because I brought this very book, televised cartoon up to a co-worker recently. I wish I could have met her. Its one of the biggest lies ever told! Eartha Kitt even has an Instagram account, in which he has over a thousand followers and gets over 100k likes per posting. She starts to do so. . I feel this subject matter continues to be at the forefront of our society and in order to make progress, we need to become educated and keep the conversation going. It has been documented in history, we see it in our communities, and it even makes sense biologically. Click on the link above if youre willing to tweet it. The father's name was blacked out. If you look past skin and hair color, then you will see that Kitt DOES look like her mother. Kitts mother, Annie Mae Keitt, abandoned her daughter at an early age when she found a new man with little time for the light-skinned Eartha. Entertainer. Earthas mother, Mamie/Annie Mae Kitt, was African-American. Eartha's mother, Annie . She could be another Sentor Strong Thurmond case which is why the black-outed the name on the birth certificate. Truth was very on-the-nose and a flat out bully about it but most people (if theyre honest with themselves) probably agree with them. In the photo, a very young Kitt was seen wearing a blue and white dress and a white headband while playing next to John, who wore black pants and matching shirt. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32398636/eartha-kitt. Daniels father was Calvin Richard Sturkie (the son of Richard Benjamin Sturkie and Jerusha Jeffcoat). Frankly, nearly all African Americans are, although most do not have one white parent. Sneetches want their stars removed so they can justify their nastiness. When Batman the series premiered, Adam West played the dark knight while Julie Newmar took on Catwoman. Same parents. My mother got the biggest kick out of me not fitting the mold,Heres to not fitting the mold!. One of them showed Kitts firstborn, Jason Shapiro. And, I have the gift of the love she gave me and the example she set on how to live a life to its fullest with. She looks like her father to me, plus her body build resembles Mrs. Eartha Kitts. It is Wonderful you are celebrating your mothers legacy. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. She began turning out hit records that showcased her good-girl-turned-bad image such as Love for Sale, I Want to be Evil, and the naughty holiday classic Santa Baby. Her spoken word album, Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa, released in 1952, earned Kitt a Grammy nomination. Shapiro explained what being a lighter shade in color meant at the time, revealing that the black communi AND you DO look like your mom, your smile, your eyes, etc. Wiliam Kitt was her maternal grandfather. truth is so very wrong. Bless you and your family. They are blessed with loving and interesting families. Possibly one of the Keitt family, 'the former slave owners,' or, far more likely, a recently bereaved local doctor called Daniel Sturkie. Your response to her was gracious and probably undeserved. Kitt's daughter, Kitt McDonald Shapiro, has questioned the accuracy of the claim. She played the part of Yzma once again in the sequel Kronks New Groove (2005), which was released exclusively on home video, as well as in the animated series The Emperors New School (20062008). You need a Find a Grave account to continue. I have made it a rule to sign my name to what I write because I have nothing to hide. But, I do find it interesting that because (in this instance), I dont fit the multi-racial look for this person, they feel compelled to deny that I am even who I am. rcel.src = "//trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=76341&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); I used to scour the web looking for photos of Eartha pregnant. During this time, she returned to the Great White Way in the play Mrs. Patterson, a role that earned the actress her first Tony nomination. Williams claims that Kitt's father was Daniel Sturkie, a local white doctor. Eartha was sent to live with a different aunt named Mamie Kitt after Annie Mae passed away. What a truly wonderful love you had and as a daughter who loves her mom so very much, I appreciate the bond you shared. No one ever believed her father was Japanese. It sells different types of items, including bracelets, mugs, blankets, and shirts. I think adoption is fabulous. Kitts physical features are more similar to her white father. Kitt was the daughter of a Cherokee and Black mother and an white father she never knew, and from the age of eight . But it was the stage where Kitt felt the most at home, performing for most of the 1990s and 2000s in national touring productions of The Wizard of Oz (as the Wicked Witch of the West) and Cinderella (as the Fairy Godmother). All one needs to do it to look at you and theyll see the awesome DNA youve inherited, and with a few enhancements, made your own. After all that Eartha went through, I think she would have told Kitt if she was adopted. As many have said, your compassionate, common-sense and gracious response is so perfectly Eartha, she raised you up in her shadow in all the best conceivable ways. We have set your language to 82 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Austin Brothers Company: Born on a cotton plantation near the small town of North, South Carolina, or St. Matthews on. No one but a cruel, heartless, evil , hot mess of a poor excuse for a human being would throw it in a persons face!!! When asked what race she identified with, she would say, the human race. I think its amazing. In 1987, she replaced fellow American Dolores Gray in the London West End production of Stephen Sondheims Follies, and at the end of that run, she starred in a one-woman show at the same Shaftesbury Theatre. Right. (AP) Singer, January. Im certain you can get your Mothers biological Father, through DNA / genetics match sites. Born Eartha Mae Keith, she was raised in South Carolina and New York City, joined the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in 1948's "Casbah". She followed up with her second autobiography Alone with Me in 1976, and delivered another Tony-nominated performance in the 1978 musical Timbuktu! My mother raised me to respect EVERY thing and EVERY one, So, when a person says to me that I was adopted, and my mother hid that from me all my life, because I dont possess the features that person feels I should have, is in a way, denying my very existence. Both of these performances were met with tremendous acclaim. Eartha Kitt said this about Maria Cole: . Deal with it. Like my mother, I believe that we need to share in order to bring awareness and effect change. Kitts mother was Black and her mother was Cherokee. 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