Watch Eartha Kitt at her funniest

December 26, 5:07 PMCelebrity ExaminerCharlie Carballo

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If you haven't seen "Boomerang," I suggest you do. Watch Eartha Kitt in action as she steals the show from Eddie Murphy.

Eartha Mae Kitt, the daughter of a white plantation owner’s son and a black sharecropper’s daughter in Columbia, South Carolina, died December 25, 2008 of complications due to colon cancer. She was 81. Ms. Kitt was perhaps best known for her interpretation of the Christmas classic “Santa Baby” which was often miscredited to Marilyn Monroe and covered more recently by Madonna. But it was Ms. Kitt who defined sexy when African-American women were hardly allowed to do so.

Eartha Kitt also played the role of Catwoman in 1961 during season four of the television series Batman and hilariously seduced Eddie Murphy as Lady Eloise in 1992’s Boomerang. 

 Biography via Guanabee