(CNN)-- Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died, her publicist ... At age 8, she was sent from the cotton fields of South Carolina by her mother to live with her aunt in New York City's Harlem ...

London, United Kingdom, Nov. 13, 1958: A makeup artist preps singer and actress Eartha Kitt backstage at the London Palladium. The sultry-voiced singer was a guest star on Britain’s “Sunday Ni ...