"I've Had This Tremendous Desire to be Loved" - Eartha Kitt | The Dick Cavett Show

Eartha Kitt talks about her troubled childhood and answers whether she believes it played a part in her becoming an entertainer.
What's your favorite Eartha Kitt role?
Date aired - September 2nd, 1969 - Eartha Kitt
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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What's your favorite Eartha Kitt role?

[@wendylafauce5618]

Anna Lucasta

[@lorenzoblum868]

Eartha Kitt

[@wildnholiday]

Gogo Germaine

[@garyspence2128]

As Catwoman on the 60's version of Batman. She was totally sexy, captivating and campy, all at the same time. Only Michelle Pheiffer comes close to Eartha in that role.

[@KristineMaitland]

I have two. One is for her voice work as Yzma - she got Daytime Emmy for that. The other was for a guest appearance on I Spy as drug addicted Angel. She really should have been nominated for a Golden Globe for that

[@Marcel_Audubon]

articulate, talented woman ... and very open - how many people could sit down in front of a roomful of strangers and say 'I've had this tremendous desire to be loved, but not because I exist ..."

[@jklynb]

This is one of the strongest and most intelligent ladies I’ve ever heard speak. Really need to read her book. What a completely wonderful person she is.

[@aaronpotter7025]

I've noticed that brilliant and talented people have a very specific way of talking. Many breaks between words and a certain thoughtfulness.

[@mattmadge5917]

She could’ve easily been a public motivational speaker!

[@spit777]

I live for these intellectual conversations fr

[@AimeeAimee444]

Love Eartha Kitt! Went to see her for my 30th birthday at The Cafe Carlyle. She wished me a happy birthday and we had a blast! A night to remember. My favorite Eartha Kitt is Eartha Kitt herself! ❌⭕️

[@skunknightjahsound5484]

oh wouaw that feel so lovely ^^ ... memories just memories that is the think

[@ianbauer4703]

A beautiful human being.

[@sugarlove]

What a fantastic woman she was❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@zeldasmith6154]

The great tragedy is people want to have children when they have no reality about raising a child or guiding a child.

[@jmarco117]

💯 and it’s rampant. But the problem is all our ancestors passed on all their issues/behaviours/traits to the next generation as no one had enough self awareness to try and stop the cycle. And considering people in the past had children quite young, they had no hope of true emotional intelligence and self inquiry. If I look at my personality/traits, I am literally a mixture of my parents; the way I respond, the way I react, what I do when I get angry, my generosity, my ignorance, my worrying, I am allllll my parents. And they would have picked up things from each of their parents and experiences too, so it’s just a snowball effect.

[@masonmartinez4639]

ICON!!!! 💜💜💜💜

[@br0k3nh3d9]

Amazing woman

[@beastylad7418]

Beautiful lady and classy’ I remember her when I was a kid’ my mum used to sing along with her in the radio’ An old fashioned girl’ Amazing how someone like her became a star ⭐️ from such a tough up bringing’ Love her ❤

[@axelazaryan]

Goosebumps....

[@jpgiuliotti]

Tremendously articulate.

[@keramxela]

We all have that desire to be loved. We all have.

[@bubbaclark4355]

My favorite roll was catwoman

[@kindell1]

She had such a sweet, pretty, girly voice

[@kitschmygrits4836]

I love her more now!

[@echopathy]

My God. Lovely.

[@LatiaSharay]

Wow this is my first time seeing an interview of Eartha kitt. Smart and articulate woman. Very aware . Loved listening to her speak.

[@skunknightjahsound5484]

oh my god oh my god she was so so lovely .............................. rest in peace eartha kitt

[@johnbaker3037]

The 50th anniversary of the Fischer Spassky match is this year, so it would be great if you guys could post Fischer's December 1972 appearance on the Dick Cavett show from after he won the match.

[@Digmer]

She turned abandonment into independence and art.

[@HydeWest]

LBJ did her dirty y’all.

[@janessaganuelas4323]

He really did.💯

[@Dayserking]

This woman is a Goddess

[@ladydiaspora807]

Thandie Newton could play her in a movie

[@rsgabrys3080]

------------------------ she died never knowing her father's name .....favorite role....? Of course just being herself ..... no rehearsals no 100 takes to get it right.....

[@KristineMaitland]

Yes she did die knowing her actual birthdate. A university's class did the research.

[@stingsAUTTP]

Not “Scary Beyond All Reason” here, bc she was not Yzma yet.