RIP Eartha Kitt

Most obituaries will obviously start off with her stint as Catwoman from the Sixties which is how I was introduced to her during my childhood (Batman was syndicated then, I’m not that old). The casting of another actress for the part wasn’t a surprise after I got my head around John Astin as the Riddler instead of Frank Gorshin. These days, I remembered her as a great voice in contemporary cartoons: The Emperors New Groove and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Eartha’s diction and cat-like speaking manner definitely brought the right amount of malice to the villains she portrayed.