Eartha Kitt epitomized the thought of the sex-kitten chanteuse, growing to fame using a nightclub action devoted to her slinky stage existence and her throaty purr of the voice. Just as much as she appreciated vamping it up, she also projected the picture of an incredible international sophisticate, specifically since she sang in a number of different dialects. She brought an absolute zest to her torch tracks, and preferred lyrics that coated her because the Materials Young lady of her period. Kitt’s persona was therefore brilliant and well-developed that she continued to be quickly identifiable well after her early-’50s heyday, looked after helped her discover achievement as an celebrity in movies, Television, and theater. Even though many keep in mind her best among the actresses to try out Catwoman for the ’60s Batman series, Kitt was constantly a cabaret performer in mind, one whose work translated greatest in a live establishing. She rose significantly to popularity from a years as a child of overlook and poverty, shifting from SC to Harlem at age group eight to reside with an aunt. She toured internationally during her past due teens within a dance business, and also created a singing work. Putting your signature on with RCA, she obtained numerous strikes over 1953-1955, including “C’est Si Bon,” “I wish to Be Bad,” and “Santa Baby,” amongst others; she later on branched out into an performing career. Pursuing her razor-sharp criticism from the Vietnam Battle in 1968, Kitt endured a ten-year blacklisting in the us and shifted to Europe to create her living. She came back towards the U.S. within the ’80s and ’90s, both as an celebrity so when a singer for the nightclub circuit. In 2000, she received another Tony nomination on her behalf function in the musical crisis The Crazy Party. Kitt continuing performing and documenting in to the 2000s, but was identified as having cancer of the colon in 2006, and handed from the condition in past due 2008.
Quick Facts
Full Name Eartha Kitt
Date Of Birth January 17, 1927
Died December 25, 2008, Weston, Connecticut, United States
Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program
Music Songs Santa Baby, C'Est Si Bon, I Want to Be Evil, Just an Old Fashioned Girl, Where Is My Man, Let's Do It, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Snuff Out the Light, Je Cherche Un Homme, Lilac Wine, Cha Cha Heels, Angelitos Negros, C'Mon a My House!, My Discarded Men, Nothin' for Christmas, Lovin' Spree, If I Can't Take It With Me, This Is My Life, I Love Men, Under the Bridges of Paris, Champagne Taste, Ain't Misbehavin', I Wanna Be Evil!, Mademoiselle Kitt, Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell, Mambo De Paree, Monotonous, I'd Rather Be Burnt as a Witch, This Year's Santa Baby, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, I Wantcha Around, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More
Albums That Bad Eartha, Bad But Beautiful, I Love Men, Sentimental Eartha, Eartha Kitt in Person at the Plaza, RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt, Just Eartha Kitt, Canta en Espanol, Eartha Kitt: Just an Old-Fashioned Girl, Thursday's Child, Eartha Kitt Sings Santa Baby, The Fabulous Eartha Kitt, I'm Still Here, The Outstanding Eartha Kitt, "Serie All Stars Music" Nº12 Exclusive Remastered From Original Vinyl First Edition (Vintage LPs), Eartha Kitt narrates The Folk Tales Of The Tribes Of Africa, Monumental - Classic Artists - Eartha Kitt, A Lady Loves, Famous Ladies (Eartha Kitt - Lilac Wine), Melody Maker - Eartha Kitt, Love for Sale, Sweet And Gentle, Lullaby of Birdland (Mono Version) [feat. Henri René et son orchestre], Hello Germany, Eartha Kitt: Five Original Albums (Digital Version), Truly Eartha Kitt, In the Still Of The Night, The Classic Years Vol 2, Eartha Kitt 50 Hits, Vol. 1, Hit Wonder: Eartha Kitt, Vol. 4, Voice Masters: Lazy Afternoon, Mink Shmink, Mrs Patterson, Eartha Kitt at Her Best, Vol.1, Collector´s Item (My Heart Belongs to Daddy), Diva - Eartha Kitt, Eartha Kitt 50 Hits, Vol. 2, Eartha Kitt Live at Tivoli 1962, Looking for a Boy, Forever Eartha Kitt, C'Est Si Bon (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show/1955), Eartha-Quake, 'Miss Kitt,' to You, The Essential Eartha Kitt, 50 Greatest Hits - Very Best Of, The Best of Eartha Kitt, Uska Dara, Autumn Leaves (les Feuilles Mortes), The Very Best of Eartha Kitt, Eartha Kitt Sings (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962), Je cherche un homme
Nominations Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, NME Award for World Female Singer, NME Award for Favourite US Female Singer
Movies The Emperor's New Groove, Anna Lucasta, Holes, Kronk's New Groove, Boomerang, St. Louis Blues, Friday Foster, Harriet the Spy, Ernest Scared Stupid, Erik the Viking, And Then Came Love, The Mark of the Hawk, Synanon, New Faces, Up the Chastity Belt, Fatal Instinct, I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, On the One, Ill-Gotten Gains, The Pink Chiquitas, To Kill a Cop, Escape from Cluster Prime, Serpent Warriors, Master Of Dragonard Hill, The Feast of All Saints, Anything But Love, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration, Living Doll, Dragonard, Butterflies in Heat, Once Upon a Halloween, Lieutenant Schuster's Wife, Ill Gotten Gains
TV Shows The Emperor's New School, I Spy, Batman, Brown Sugar
Facts
Filmography
Awards
Salaries
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Trademarks
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Holds two Daytime Emmy Award records. She is both the only performer to win the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program award three times, as well as the only winner to win three consecutive awards.
In 1953, she recorded with Henri Rene and his Orchestra the American version of the French song "C'est si bon" which was written in 1947 by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics). The English lyrics were written by Jerry Seelen in 1950 but Eartha Kitt sings the song in French. This version was used in New Faces (1954).
4
She was a staunch liberal Democrat.
5
Eartha Kitt passed away on December 25, 2008, a month away from what would have been her 82nd birthday on January 17, 2009.
6
Well-known for her recordings of "Santa Baby" in the 1950s and 1960s. She died on Christmas Day 2008 at her home in Weston, Connecticut.
7
She was awarded the 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill" at the Broadway Productions and New Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
8
Was nominated in 1996 for a Grammy Award in traditional pop vocal performance for her album "Back in Business".
9
Among her liaisons with wealthy men included Charles Revson, the Revlon cosmetics founder, and actor Orson Welles, who spotted her in a Paris nightclub and cast her in his Paris stage production of "Faust".
10
An aunt brought her to New York City where she attended the High School of Performing Arts, before dropping out to take on various menial jobs, including one in a factory.
11
Became fluent in French during her long years performing in Europe.
12
In 1968, she suffered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. It was reported that she made Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady at the time, cry when she bluntly told her, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam." However, the public reaction to Kitt's statements was even more extreme both for and against her statements. Professionally exiled from the United States, she devoted her energies to overseas performances for nearly a decade.
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Replaced Chita Rivera for a time in the Broadway revival of the musical "Nine".
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6656 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
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Her husband, William O. McDonald, was a real estate developer. They were married from 1960 to 1965. They had one daughter: Kitt McDonald.
Was inspired to go into show business after witnessing the wild applause that the audience gave José Ferrer after one of his stage performances as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1946.
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Was nominated twice for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1978, as Best Actress (Musical) for "Timbuktu!"; and in 2000, as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "The Wild Party".
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Was virtually exiled from the United States after making anti-war statements during a White House luncheon with Lady Bird Johnson in 1968. However, she was welcomed back to the White House by Jimmy Carter who took office in January 1977.
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Ranked #89 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
21
Kitt's age was always a mystery, until 1998, when a group of students from her hometown in South Carolina unearthed her birth certificate. The document revealed that her true birthday is January 17, 1927.
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Daughter: Kitt McDonald. Grandchildren: Justin and Rachel Shapiro.
Actress
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dragonard
1987
Naomi
Master of Dragonard Hill
1987
Naomi
The Pink Chiquitas
1987
Betty / Meteor (voice)
The Serpent Warriors
1985
Snake Priestess
Miami Vice
1985
TV Series
Priestess Chata
A Night on the Town
1983
TV Movie
Butterflies in Heat
1979
Lola
To Kill a Cop
1978
TV Movie
Paula
Police Woman
1978
TV Series
Amelia
Friday Foster
1975
Madame Rena
The Protectors
1974
TV Series
Carrie Blaine
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
TV Movie
Lady
The Chastity Belt
1972
Scheherazade
Batman
1967-1968
TV Series
The Catwoman
Mission: Impossible
1967
TV Series
Tina Mara
I Spy
1965
TV Series
Angel
Ben Casey
1965
TV Series
Danielle Taylor
Synanon
1965
Betty Coleman
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965
Singer (uncredited)
Burke's Law
1965
TV Series
Honoria De Witt
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1962
TV Mini-Series
Sally Carrington
Drei Männer spinnen
1962
TV Movie
Saint of Devil's Island
1961
Annette
Play of the Week
1961
TV Series
Playhouse 90
1958
TV Series
The Queen
Anna Lucasta
1958
Anna Lucasta
St. Louis Blues
1958
Gogo Germaine
The Mark of the Hawk
1957
Renee
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1956
TV Series
Theodora 'Teddy' Hicks
Omnibus
1955
TV Series
Salome
All Star Revue
1953
TV Series
Guest Vocalist
You Are There
1953
TV Series
Donna Marina
Parigi è sempre Parigi
1951
Cabaret Singer / Herself
Casbah
1948
Katherine Dunham Group Dancer (uncredited)
The Simpsons
2010
TV Series
Eartha Kitt
Wonder Pets!
2009
TV Series
Cool Cat
The Emperor's New School
2006-2008
TV Series
Yzma
Behind the Director's Son's Cut
2007
Video short
Freya
American Dad!
2007
TV Series
Fortune Teller
And Then Came Love
2007
Mona
My Life as a Teenage Robot
2003-2007
TV Series
Vexus
Kronk's New Groove
2005
Video
Yzma (voice)
Preaching to the Choir
2005
Ms. Nettie
Escape from Cluster Prime
2005
TV Movie
Vexus (voice)
Holes
2003
Madame Zeroni
Emperor's New Groove
2001
Video Game
Yzma (voice)
Santa, Baby!
2001
TV Movie
Emerald (voice)
Feast of All Saints
2001
TV Movie
Lola Dede
The Emperor's New Groove
2000
Yzma (voice)
Welcome to New York
2000
TV Series
June
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2000
TV Series
The Snow Queen
The Famous Jett Jackson
1999
TV Series
Albertine Whethers
The Proteus Chronicles
1998
Doctor
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Video
Bagheera (voice)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
1998
Cult Leader
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
TV Series
Lioness #1
Ill Gotten Gains
1997
The Wood (voice)
Harriet the Spy
1996
Agatha K. Plummer
The Nanny
1996
TV Series
Eartha Kitt
Living Single
1995
TV Series
Jacqueline Richards
New York Undercover
1995
TV Series
Mrs. Stubbs
The Magic School Bus
1995
TV Series
Mrs. Franklin
Fatal Instinct
1993
First Trial Judge
Matrix
1993
TV Series
Sister Rowena
Jack's Place
1993
TV Series
Isabel Lang
Boomerang
1992
Lady Eloise
Ernest Scared Stupid
1991
Old Lady Hackmore
Living Doll
1990
Mrs. Swartz
Erik the Viking
1989
Freya
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
performer: "C'est si bon"
I Saw the Light
2015
performer: "Santa Baby"
The Originals
2015
TV Series performer - 1 episode
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
performer: "C'est si bon"
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
performer: "C'est si bon"
Half of a Yellow Sun
2013
performer: "Santa Baby"
Le Week-End
2013
performer: "Apres Moi"
The Borrowers
2011
TV Movie performer: "Santa Baby"
Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs
2011
TV Movie documentary performer: "Santa Baby"
So You Think You Can Dance
2011
TV Series performer - 1 episode
I Heart You Pare
2011
TV Series 1 episode
Misfits
2010
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Lie to Me
2009
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Qwerty
2009
TV Series performer - 1 episode
An Evening with Eartha Kitt
2009
TV Movie documentary performer: "Ain't Misbehavin'", "La Vie en Rose", "Here's to Life"
13 heures le journal
2008
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Da Lintsi -koodi
2007
TV Movie lyrics: "Uska Dara"
The Emperor's New School
2007
TV Series performer - 1 episode
P2
2007
performer: "Santa Baby"
My Name Is Earl
2005
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Kronk's New Groove
2005
Video performer: "Feel Like A Million"
Huips
2004
TV Movie performer: "Champagne Taste"
Miss Match
2003
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Something's Gotta Give
2003
performer: "Je Cherche un Homme", "C'est si bon"
The O.C.
2003
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Elf
2003
performer: "Santa Baby" 1953
Friday After Next
2002
performer: "Santa Baby"
The Sweatbox
2002
Documentary performer: "Snuff Out the Lights" - uncredited
Wie die Karnickel
2002
performer: "I Love Men"
Laurel Canyon
2002
performer: "C'est si bon"
Mein Bruder, der Vampir
2001
performer: "I Want To Be Evil"
The Sopranos
2001
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 54th Annual Tony Awards
2000
TV Special performer: "When It Ends", "Wild"
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2000
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Roseanne Show
1998
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997
performer: "Santa Baby"
Rites of Winter
1996
performer: "Santa Baby"
The Nanny
1996
TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Harriet the Spy
1996
performer: "Uska Dara"
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
1995
performer: "Je Cherche Un Homme I Wan't A Man"
Mixed Nuts
1994
performer: "Santa Baby"
A Man of No Importance
1994
performer: "Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love"
Jools Holland's Happening
1991
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
performer: "SANTA BABY" 1953
The Pink Chiquitas
1987
performer: "The Boy from Ipenema", "Uska Dara- A Turkish Tale", "She's Hot'
The Mike Douglas Show
1979
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Chastity Belt
1972
performer: "A Knight For My Nights"
I Spy
1965
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
TV Special performer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
The Voice of Firestone
1958
TV Series performer - 1 episode
St. Louis Blues
1958
performer: "Yellow Dog Blues", "Careless Love", "Friendless Blues", "Chantez Les Bas", "Saint Louis Blues"
The Mark of the Hawk
1957
performer: "This Man Is Mine"
The Ed Sullivan Show
1955
TV Series performer - 1 episode
New Faces
1954
performer: "C'est si bon" uncredited, "Love Is a Simple Thing", "Santa Baby", "Uska Dara", "Bal Petit Bal", "Monotonous"
Thanks
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pretty Dudes
2017
TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Oz
2001
TV Series special thanks - 1 episode
Hamlet
2000
special thanks
Unzipped
1995
Documentary very special thanks
Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido
1985
TV Short thanks
Self
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
An Evening with Eartha Kitt
2009
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Breakfast
2008
TV Series
Herself
Loose Women
2007
TV Series
Herself
American Masters
2005-2006
TV Series documentary
Herself
Larry King Live
2005
TV Series
Herself
74th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade
2005
TV Special
Herself
The Many Faces of Catwoman
2005
Video documentary short
Herself - Host and Narrator
Biography
1998-2004
TV Series documentary
Herself
The 2nd Annual TV Land Awards
2004
TV Special
Herself
Hollywood Squares
2003
TV Series
Herself - Panelist
Anything But Love
2002
Herself
The Sweatbox
2002
Documentary
Herself
Inside TV Land: African Americans in Television
2002
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
Documentary
Herself
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
2001
TV Special documentary
Herself
Oz
2001
TV Series
Herself
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1997-2000
TV Series
Herself
The 54th Annual Tony Awards
2000
TV Special
Herself - Performer & Nominee: Best Featured Actress in a Musical
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
TV Special
Herself - Singer
What's My Line?
1954-1961
TV Series
Herself - Mystery Guest / Herself
The Mike Wallace Interview
1960
TV Series
Herself
The Juke Box Jury
1959
TV Series
Herself
The Ben Hecht Show
1959
TV Series
Herself - Singer / Actress
The Voice of Firestone
1958
TV Series
Herself
The Big Record
1958
TV Series
Herself
The Nat King Cole Show
1957
TV Series
Herself - Singer
The Arthur Murray Party
1957
TV Series
Herself
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z
1957
TV Series
Herself
Film Fanfare
1956
TV Series
Herself
Person to Person
1954
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Morning Show
1954
TV Series
Herself
Your Show of Shows
1954
TV Series
Herself - Guest Perfomrer
New Faces
1954
Herself
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1954
TV Series
Herself - Singer
The Red Buttons Show
1953
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Unsung Hollywood
2016
TV Series documentary
Herself
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
2014
Documentary
Herself
Glasgow: Big Night Out
2014
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Frollo Show
2012-2013
TV Series
Yzma
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
2010
TV Series documentary
Old Lady Hackmore
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2009
TV Special
Herself - Memorial Tribute
13 heures le journal
2008
TV Series
Herself
TV's Funniest Music Moments
2008
TV Movie
Herself
American Experience
2005
TV Series documentary
Herself
Carmen and Geoffrey
2005
Documentary
Herself
It's Black Entertainment
2002
TV Special documentary
Herself
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Real Las Vegas
1996
TV Series documentary
Herself
Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion
1995
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Heroes of Comedy
1995
TV Series documentary
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år
1993
TV Movie documentary
Herself - Performer
¡Qué noche la de aquel año!
1987
TV Series
Herself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1962
TV Series
Herself
Won awards
Won awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
Award shared with
2010
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
Wonder Pets! (2006)
2008
Annie
Annie Awards
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
The Emperor's New School (2006)
2008
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
The Emperor's New School (2006)
2007
Annie
Annie Awards
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
The Emperor's New School (2006)
2007
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
The Emperor's New School (2006)
2001
Annie
Annie Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
2001
OFTA Film Award
Online Film & Television Association
Best Voice-Over Performance
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Recording
On February 8, 1960. At 6656 Hollywood Blvd.
Nominated awards
Nominated awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
Award shared with
2001
Black Reel
Black Reel Awards
Theatrical - Best Supporting Actress
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
1996
Image Award
Image Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Living Single (1993)
1966
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama
I Spy (1965)
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If someone would even suggest such a vulgar thing as a goodbye-themed event for me, I would pretend I didn't hear it. Goodbye to what? My whole life?
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[on Orson Welles] Orson spent most of his money on women. That's why he didn't have the money to make films.
3
A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
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[in an Essence magazine interview regarding her anti-war statements to Lady Bird Johnson and her subsequent loss of work because of them] The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth -- in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth -- you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
5
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
6
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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[on her friendship with James Dean] Jamie and I were like brother and sister. He told me, in fact, he thought of me as a sister. Our relationship was strictly platonic and spiritual.
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[at the White House in 1968] I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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