Eartha Kitt Filmography

Preaching to the Choir

Actors: Billöah Greene, Darien Sills-Evans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Janine Green, Novella Nelson

Synopsis: A pair of estranged twins driven apart by the death of their parents find reconciliation and redemption after following radically different paths in life in director Charles Randolph-Wright's righteous tale of sibling rivalry and divine intervention. Upon losing their parents, twin brothers Read More

The Emperor's New School [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Wendie Malick, Jessica Di Cicco, J.P. Manoux, Shane Baumel, Bob Bergen

Synopsis: The weekly, half-hour cartoon series The Emperor's New School was a spin-off of two Disney animated features, The Emperor's New Groove (2000) and the direct-to-video Kronk's New Groove (2005). Set in pre-Columbian South America, the series, like its predecessors, chronicled the misadventures of Read More

Kronk's New Groove

Synopsis: The voice cast of Disney's 2000 animated hit The Emperor's New Groove returns in this sequel in which newly established restaurateur Kronk attempts to whip his diner into shape before the arrival of his visiting father. Business at his newly opened restaurant just isn't as good as Kronk had hoped Read More

Instant Karma

Actors: The Rock

James Dean: Sense Memories

Synopsis: James Dean: Sense Memories documents the short but brilliant career of the iconic James Dean. Combining interviews given by some of those who worked with him and archival footage, this American Masters film attempts to explain how Dean's talent and acting style helped make him a superstar and Read More

The Sweatbox

Anything But Love

Actors: Isabel Rose, Andrew McCarthy, Cameron Bancroft, Alix Korey, Ilana Levine

Synopsis: A woman is forced to decide which of her dreams she'd like to come true in this musical-comedy drama. Billie Golden (Isabel Rose) is a young woman who dreams of being a successful cabaret singer and often imagines herself performing in a swank lounge or starring in a classic movie musical of the Read More

Holes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Dule Hill

Synopsis: A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a Read More

Santa, Baby!

Actors: Gregory Hines, Tom Joyner, Eartha Kitt, Patti LaBelle, Vanessa A. Williams

The Feast of All Saints

Actors: Gloria Reuben, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Robert Ri'chard

Synopsis: Based on a story by Anne Rice, this made-for-cable miniseries explores the little-known phenomenon of the "Gens de Couleur Libres," or "Free People of Color," who lived in Louisiana at a time when slavery still held a stranglehold on much of the South. In 1822, it was not at all uncommon for Read More

The Emperor's New Groove

Actors: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton, Wendie Malick

Synopsis: A ruler learns how the other half lives -- the animal half, that is -- in this animated comedy-adventure from the Walt Disney Studios. Kuzco (voice of David Spade) is the young emperor of an Inca nation who takes a self-centered joy in the troubles of others. Not surprisingly, Kuzco's attitudes Read More

Ill-Gotten Gains

Actors: Djimon Hounsou, Akosua Busia, De'Aundre Bonds, Eartha Kitt, Reg E. Cathey

Synopsis: A kidnapped African fights for his life rather than allowing himself to be sold into slavery in this historical drama. In 1869, slavery is outlawed in America as well as most of the world, but that doesn't stop certain unscrupulous traders from trafficking in human beings to an underground market Read More

I Woke Up Early The Day I Died

Actors: Billy Zane, Sandra Bernhard, Ron Perlman, Tippi Hedren, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: Aris Iliopulos directed this campy comedy utilizing schlock filmmaker Ed Wood's last unproduced screenplay. Stock footage and old hygiene films are intercut with this near-silent story following a cross-dresser (Billy Zane), who escapes from the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium, manages to acquire some Read More

Harriet the Spy

Actors: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, J. Smith-Cameron

Synopsis: The first feature film from the Nickelodeon cable channel, Harriet the Spy is an updated version of Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling 1964 children's novel. Sixth grade outcast Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is an only child who has mostly been raised by her nanny, Golly (Rosie O'Donnell), rather Read More

Unzipped

Actors: Isaac Mizrahi

Synopsis: This documentary takes a lighthearted inside look at the fashion industry follows New York designer Isaac Mizrahi as he prepares to stage a fashion show. While the film avoids criticism and in-depth probing into Mizrahi, it does provide insight into the man's creativity as he deftly deals with the Read More

Fatal Instinct

Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat Read More

Reading Rainbow: Is This a House for Hermit Crab?

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Two guest stars appear on Reading Rainbow: Is This a House for Hermit Crab?: Eartha Kitt, who reads the featured book, and Robin Leach, who narrates for a segment about animal habitats. As host LeVar Burton discusses animal shelters, he shows viewers how to construct a bird house. There is a Read More

Boomerang

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, David Alan Grier, Grace Jones, Martin Lawrence

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's also an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his new boss, Jacqueline, played by Robin Givens. In terms of things romantic, Jacqueline is nothing more or less than a female version of Marcus -- and now, for the first time Read More

Ernest Scared Stupid

Actors: Jim Varney, Austin Nagler, Shay Astar, Jonas Moscartolo

Synopsis: Ernest (Jim Varney) gets into deep trouble when he decides to build a treehouse for the neighborhood kid and accidentally digs up an ugly, evil-tempered troll who hates all children and shows it by promptly turning the five kids helping Ernest into wooden sculptures. This is the fourth entry in Read More

Living Doll

Actors: Mark Jax, Freddie Earlle, Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: For some reason, the medical student working at the city morgue is really, really attracted to the corpse of a florist he had admired while she was still living. So much so, that he steals the corpse and takes it home with him. Despite its steady progression from being a moderately fresh corpse to Read More

Erik the Viking

Actors: Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones

Synopsis: An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the job, and sets out on a magical journey in order to bring about world peace. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones attempts to have his story of Erik's seemingly hopeless Read More

Master of Dragonard Hill

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom, Kimber Sissons, Claudia Udy

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler a despotic colonial governor has made it legal to punish people with the terrifying and excruciatingly painful split-tongue whip, called the Dragonard. Fortunately, a handsome hero appears and stops him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pink Chiquitas

Actors: Frank Stallone, John Hemphill, Don Lake, Bruce Pirrie, Elizabeth Edwards

Synopsis: This sci-fi spoof stars Frank Stallone (Sly's brother) as Tony Mareda, Jr., a hot-shot private detective. Mareda leaves the funeral of his father, and while on the road and chased by two gunmen, he picks up a winsome hitchhiker and they end up at a drive in movie. While a "Zombie Beach Party 3" Read More

Dragonard

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Annabel Schofield, Claudia Udy, Patrick Warburton

Synopsis: A group of slaves rise up against their oppressive owners in this costume drama starring Eartha Kitt and Oliver Reed. Richard Abdee (Patrick Warburton) is exiled from Britain for treason and falls in love with Honore (Annabelle Schofield), the sister of the sadistic plantation owner Pierre Read More

The Serpent Warriors

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Clint Walker, Anne Lockhart

Synopsis: A zoologist is called to a construction site that has been plagued by swarms of snakes. He finds out that the site was the ancient headquarters of a snake-worshiping cult that placed a curse on the grounds. Soon the zoologist and the workers find themselves under attack by hundreds of deadly Read More

All By Myself

Actors: Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: This documentary on Eartha Kitt features several of her songs (that of the title itself, "Solitude," "I Want to Be Evil" ) in performance, and brief chats with the singer as she recounts some of her worst and best periods, beginning with the fact that her mother quickly abandoned her, leading to a Read More

To Kill a Cop

Synopsis: Joe Don Baker stars as chief of detectives, Eischeid, in the 4-hour, 2-part TV film To Kill A Cop. Eischeid must contend with a series of seemingly unrelated bank robberies and the vicious murders of two police officers. Eischeid deduces that the culprits are members of a violent African-American Read More

Friday Foster

Actors: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: In this blaxploitation film, statuesque action star Pam Grier is cast as comic-strip heroine Friday Foster. A freelance photographer with an insatiable thirst for adventure, Friday unearths a conspiracy to assassinate several prominent black political leaders. The film also features Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge Read More

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Actors: Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: Lee Grant plays Mrs. Schuster, wife of a recently murdered Manhattan cop. Lt. Schuster died under a cloud, with intimations that the killing was orchestrated by criminals with whom the Lieutenant was chummy. Mrs. Schuster is forced to vindicate her husband, and to try to emotionally reassemble Read More

Naughty Knights

Actors: Bill Fraser, Anna Quayle, Frankie Howerd

Synopsis: The British farce Naughty Knights was originally shipped out as Up the Chastity Belt. Raucuous comedian Frankie Howerd, who laid waste to Roman history in the zany TV series Up Pompeii, is the star. The film's medieval adventures, involving a noble knight and his stupid serf, are punctuated by Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Traitor

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Guest star Eartha Kitt is cast as a petite circus contortionist named Tina. American agent Hughes (Lonny Chapman) has defected to the East, intending to sell top-secret information to the Communists. In order to retrieve that information, the IMF must penetrate an Iron Curtain embassy, via the air Read More

Onkel Toms Hütte

Actors: John Kitzmiller, O.W. Fischer, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Gertraud Mittermayr, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Set in Kentucky during the slavery days of the Old South, this adaptation of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe tells of the workings of the underground railroad, a secretive system formed by whites and blacks which allowed slaves to escape into the northern states. This drama, directed in Read More

I Spy: The Loser

Synopsis: Eartha Kitt won an Emmy award for her guest appearance in this tense I Spy installment. Agent Alexander Scott is kidnapped by a Hong Kong heroin-smuggling gang in retaliation for Scott and Kelly's recent $300 million drug bust. The kidnappers agree to release Scotty only when Kelly returns the Read More

Synanon

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Alex Cord, Richard Conte

Synopsis: The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real rehab house in Santa Monica, California. The story centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who is having trouble following the strict rules of the Read More

Seventy Times Seven

Playhouse 90: Heart of Darkness

St. Louis Blues

Actors: Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, Ruby Dee, Cab Calloway, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald

Synopsis: The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a minister chastises his son for playing "the devil's music." Despite his father's admonitions, Handy is drawn to the blues. He is encouraged by two disparate women, one an earthy Read More

Anna Lucasta

Actors: Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: Playwright Philip Yordan stirred up controversy with his 1944 Broadway production Anna Lucasta, the sexy saga of a family of avaricious African-Americans. Such was the notoriety of the play that Columbia Pictures couldn't resist optioning it for a film version. Since this was 1949, Columbia took Read More

The Mark of the Hawk

Actors: Eartha Kitt, Sidney Poitier, Juano Hernandez, John McIntire, Helen Horton

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland to take a political post. Poitier's brother Clinton Macklin is in charge of a rebel organization, determine to topple the white-dominated government. Poitier must choose Read More

Omnibus: Salome

Synopsis: Best known in 1955 as a sultry singer, Eartha Kitt returned to her dancing roots in this hour-long TV adaptation of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome. In one of his earliest TV appearance, Martin Landau costars as the prophet Jokanaan, better known as John the Baptist. When he denounces King Herod Read More

New Faces

Actors: Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Alice Ghostley

Synopsis: Producer Leonard Sillman's 1952 edition of his popular Broadway revue New Faces was filmed just as it was staged, save for a wraparound fictional romantic story. The newly grafted plotline involves the efforts of director Ronny Graham to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. We Read More

Casbah

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Märta Torén, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin stars in the old Jean Gabin/Charles Boyer role as Pepe Le Moko, a master thief who lives in the Casbah section of Algiers. A French police inspector (Peter Lorre) would love Read More