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CATWOMAN VS. THE WHITE HOUSE

Directed by Scott Calonico
United States, 2022
Documentary, Short
  • 1212 minutes

Synopsis

Framed as a Batman episode, new archival footage details Eartha Kitt’s run-in with Lady Bird Johnson and the president at a 1968 luncheon. Mixing TV clips of Kitt in character as Catwoman and as herself among Washington’s wives, she summons her superpowers to sound off about the Vietnam War.

Synopsis

Framed as a Batman episode, new archival footage details Eartha Kitt’s run-in with Lady Bird Johnson and the president at a 1968 luncheon. Mixing TV clips of Kitt in character as Catwoman and as herself among Washington’s wives, she summons her superpowers to sound off about the Vietnam War.