![]() ![]() When they combined their efforts, the Eloise we know emerged. ![]() Hilary Knight was a young illustrator just getting started in books and theater posters in New York when a mutual friend introduced him to Thompson, whose “Eloise” character had become a staple of her song-and-patter nightclub act in the early 1950s. She was also a behind-the-scenes force for years as a voice coach (for Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, among others) and vocal music arranger in Hollywood. ![]() Thompson (1909–1998) was a musician, singer, and comedian, most widely remembered for her brassy, bossy turn as a magazine editor in the film Funny Face (“ Think Pink!”). Collection of Hilary Knight/©Kay ThompsonĮloise, the children’s literature star-she of the Plaza, Paris, and Moscow-was born of Kay Thompson, not otherwise an author. ![]()
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