![]() ![]() Knight's little girls, it seemed to the neighbor, were kindred spirits to Thompson's alter ego. Thompson, also as a game, for years had been improvising a 6-year-old alter ego she called Eloise to amuse her celebrated friends on movie sets and at parties Eloise offered hilarious advice over the phone as well. ![]() The neighbor introduced the illustrator, Hilary Knight, to her great and glamorous friend Kay Thompson, who lived at the Plaza Hotel and had had a long, varied career that included being Judy Garland's vocal coach and inventing her own wildly successful nightclub act. Sometime in the early 1950's, a young artist and illustrator slid a drawing of two little girls - a scruffy little ruffian carrying a club and a fluffy one with an enormous pink hair bow - under the door of his neighbor, a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. ![]()
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