Julie Newmar

December 25, 2008 at 11:11pm PST

Tags: Batman, Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, Orson Welles, RIP

Photos: splashnewsonline.com

We were just telling our mother how "Santa Baby" is our favorite Christmas carol and then we heard this awful news; Eartha Kitt, one of the greatest voices on earth, died on Christmas Day in New York City.

The groundbreaking actress and sultry singer, who broke a major color barrier by stepping into the role of Catwoman on the 1960s Batman TV series after Julie Newmar left the show, had been battling colon cancer.

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