Kay Thompson (75 page)

(68) Making a splash in
Funny Face
.

(69)
Funny Face
premiere, Radio City Music Hall, March 28, 1957.

(70) Empress of the Eloise Empire, The Plaza, October 1958.

(71) In 1956, Hilary Knight and Kay discuss “Eloise in Hollywood,” a magazine spread that was never completed.

(72) D. D. Ryan (center) convinced Kay to write
Eloise
and recommended Hilary Knight (right) to illustrate it.

(73) Future Random House president Robert L. Bernstein (left) and Andy Williams (right) see Hilary and Kay off to France for
Eloise in Paris
research, February 11, 1957.

(74) Kay’s 1956 Christmas card, drawn by Hilary Knight, though his signature was erased when printed.

(75) Eloise honks for Renault, 1958.

(76) In December 1956 at The Plaza, Evelyn Rudie poses beside Hilary Knight’s
first
Eloise portrait, which was stolen in 1960.

(77) On April 17, 1964, Hilary Knight unveiled his
second
Eloise portrait at The Plaza, with Senator Jacob Javits’ nine-year-old daughter, Carla.

(78)
Playhouse 90
production of “Eloise,” CBS Television City, Hollywood, November 22, 1956: Charles Ruggles, William Roerick, Hans Conried, Lennie Hayton, Thompson, Louis Jourdan, Inger Stevens, Mildred Natwick, Jack Mullaney, Evelyn Rudie, Ethel Barrymore, Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom, Monty Woolley.

(79) With Evelyn Rudie (as Eloise) and Louis Jourdan in the
Playhouse 90
production of “Eloise.”

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