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Country
  
United States

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HumourChildren's

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Movie
  
Eloise at the Plaza

Illustrator
  
Language
  
English

Publisher
  
Simon & Schuster

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Eloise (books) The Eloise Books

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Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (1909–1998) and illustrated by Hilary Knight (b. 1926). Thompson and Knight followed up Eloise (1955) with four sequels.

Contents

Eloise is a girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her Nanny, her pug dog Weenie, and her turtle Skipperdee.

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Thompson's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, has been cited as a possible model for Eloise, as has the author herself. The illustrator said that the image for Eloise was based on a painting that his mother, Katherine Sturges Dodge, did in the 1930s.

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Original

Eloise (books) Eloise A Book for Precocious Grown Ups Kay Thompson Hilary Knight

  • Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-ups (1955)
  • Eloise in Paris (1957)
  • Eloise at Christmastime (1958)
  • Eloise in Moscow (1959)
  • Eloise Takes a Bawth (2002), posthumously published
  • Subsequent

    Eloise (books) Eloise Books by Kay Thompson

    Other modern Eloise titles released by Simon & Schuster include Eloise's Guide to Life (2000), Eloise at Christmas (2003), Eloise's What I Absolutely Love Love Love (2005) and Love & Kisses, Eloise (2005). The same publisher began producing Eloise stories "in the style of Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight" to their early-reader Ready-to-Reads line in 2005. By 2007, 11 titles had been released in that line.

    Eloise (books) Eloise The Ultimate Edition Kay Thompson Hilary Knight

    Thompson's time on the set of the 1957 musical film Funny Face inspired a new Eloise cartoon — Eloise in Hollywood (2006).

    Eloise (books) Eloise Book by Kay Thompson Hilary Knight Bernadette Peters

    Bernadette Peters narrates a new collection of three Eloise stories — '"Eloise," "Eloise in Paris" and "Eloise in Moscow", released by Simon & Schuster Audio in October 2015. They are available in audiobook and CD and book.

    Dramatic adaptations

    In 2003, two made-for-TV movies based on the first two books were made by Walt Disney Television, titled Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime, starring Sofia Vassilieva as Eloise and Julie Andrews as Nanny. In 2006, an animated television series based on the characters of the books, premiered on Starz! Kids & Family, featuring Mary Matilyn Mouser as Eloise and Lynn Redgrave as Nanny.

    A movie based on Eloise in Paris, starring Jordana Beatty as the title character and Uma Thurman as Nanny, is being developed by Charles Shyer, director of Alfie and Father of the Bride. As of 2012, little, if any, development on the film was announced, and it was reported that Thurman filed a lawsuit against Handmade and demanded £6m compensation.

    A direct-to-DVD animated feature entitled Eloise in Africa was announced in February 2009 but was never finished. It would have been made entirely at Animation Collective’s New York City facility. In 2011, an animatic from the film was uploaded onto Vimeo.

    Television

  • Playhouse 90, "Eloise" (1956)
  • Eloise: The Animated Series (2006)
  • Movies

  • Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
  • Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
  • The Brave One (2007) mentions Eloise in a fictional NPR style radio broadcast.
  • Eloise in Paris (TBA)
  • Eloise in Africa (Cancelled)
  • Legacy

    A portrait of Eloise was hung in the lobby of the Plaza until it closed for renovations in 2005. The portrait was re-hung in 2008 after three years in storage.

    Filmmaker Lena Dunham sports an Eloise tattoo and produced the HBO documentary short, It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, chronicling the life and career of series co-author and illustrator Hilary Knight.

    References

    Eloise (books) Wikipedia