EARTHA KITT IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FIRST BLACK CATWOMAN

Eartha Kitt in the “Batman” series (1967-1968) After the departure of Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt appears in the third and final season of the Batman series, for which she plays the rebellious heroine in a more bitter and dramatic version than her former colleagues. In her acting, the actress draws from her daily life as a dancer, cabaret singer, and muse of Orson Welles, whom he would even qualify as the “most exciting woman in the world”. The young girl with an unhappy childhood ultimately experienced international success, becoming an international star for her role in films such as C'est si Bon and Santa Baby. She was also the first African-American actress to play the character of Catwoman, and Zoë Kravitz will follow in her footsteps in The Batman.

Lee Meriwether in“Batman” (1966) Julie Newmar, having been warned too late and already under contract for another project, had to pass her catsuit onto actress Lee Meriwether for Leslie H. Martinson's rendition of Batman. Equipped with the same lurex costume, the Catwoman in the film is just as charismatic. United with the Joker, the Penguin, and the Sphinx, the Cat Woman sequesters a researcher who has found a process allowing him to dehydrate human bodies to the state of powder.