What was Eartha Kitt known for?

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After success performing in nightclubs, Eartha Kitt made her acting debut in Orson Welles’s Time Runs in 1950. Her appearance in the Broadway revue Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952 and her early 1950s recordings secured her stardom. Notable television roles included Catwoman in the 1960s series Batman and the voice of Yzma in the children’s television program The Emperor’s New School.

Why was Eartha Kitt blacklisted?

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Eartha Kitt was blacklisted after she publicly criticized the Vietnam War at a 1968 White House luncheon in the presence of the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson. Her career in the U.S. went into a severe decline. In the 1970s it began to recover after news surfaced that she had been subjected to U.S. Secret Service surveillance.