Alone with me: A new autobiography

by Eartha Kitt

The American entertainer recounts the personal and public scenes, setbacks, and triumphs of her life and uneven international career, assigning places to her vaiour villains and champions.

Genres: Memoir, Music, Biography, History, Nonfiction

276 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season.

Reviews

[Ery Caswell · Rating 4 out of 5]

love Eartha Kitt. glad I read this. it's written a lot like how she speaks and is almost like a sit down interview which is a beautiful thing.

she was fiercely intelligent and saw to the heart of things. enough so to have a CIA dossier compiled on her after she was basically exiled from working in America for speaking at Lady Bird Johnson's women's luncheon which she writes on in one of the final chapters. her brining reality about crime and poverty and war to the luncheon wound up pissing everybody off and it was all over the airwaves and tv news within hours. I N S P I R A T I O N. ((also the chapter about her aunt killed me))

[kg · Rating 5 out of 5]

an extremely fascinating albeit short book on the icon eartha kitt. i feel like there were some parts that need just a little bit more depth but since this is an autobiography i dont wanna be too picky. i will say it did a good job at humanizing someone best known for being eccentric and wild and showing that some people just have that star factor