Eartha Kitt (1960)

M/S of Eartha Kitt with her back to us, taking off her jumper; she is wearing a black leotard with a white sash and black seamed tights. She starts to do some leg stretches, still with her back to us and holding onto a barbell. M/S from the side as we see her face now - looking very feline - meow! She does various stretches and ballet limbering up exercises. She walks across the room where various other pieces of gym equipment stand and, with the help of a man in a blue boiler suit with ’Great Britain’ written across the front, she gets onto an exercise bike and starts to pedal very fast. High angle M/S as she gets off the bike and collapses onto a mat on the floor. As she lies on her back the man in the boiler suit (who we now learn is Al Murray, coach to the British weightlifting team at the last Olympics) lowers a barbell down to her. She lifts the weights by moving her arms backwards and forwards over her head. Al adds some weights to a shoulder exercise machine; Eartha stands on a small p