Christmas Books That Were Turned Into Movies ( Photo Credit – IMDb )
Not everyone likes reading books. It demands a big chunk of your time and a lot of concentration. And come on, let’s be real, why bother when you can easily watch a two-hour movie adaptation that covers all the important scenes and leaves out all the fillers? Besides, even for the most avid book readers, diving into Christmas-themed books might not be very high up on their list of holiday priorities. So, what better way to fill in that book void on Christmas than by watching some Christmas films based on books?
Here are 5 holiday-themed books that were turned into movies.
1. The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
“The Man Who Invented Christmas” is a Charles Dickens biographical film based on a book written by Les Standiford. It was released on November 22, 2017, in Canada and was directed by Bharat Nalluri. It stars Dan Stevens,...
Not everyone likes reading books. It demands a big chunk of your time and a lot of concentration. And come on, let’s be real, why bother when you can easily watch a two-hour movie adaptation that covers all the important scenes and leaves out all the fillers? Besides, even for the most avid book readers, diving into Christmas-themed books might not be very high up on their list of holiday priorities. So, what better way to fill in that book void on Christmas than by watching some Christmas films based on books?
Here are 5 holiday-themed books that were turned into movies.
1. The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
“The Man Who Invented Christmas” is a Charles Dickens biographical film based on a book written by Les Standiford. It was released on November 22, 2017, in Canada and was directed by Bharat Nalluri. It stars Dan Stevens,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Koimoi.com Team
- KoiMoi
James Hamilton has lived an envious life. As staff photographer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer, Hamilton chronicled the faces of New York culture, from Meryl Streep and Liza Minnelli to Jean-Luc Godard and Wes Anderson. One balmy night in 1980, I witnessed Hamilton shooting the iconic photo of Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York,” standing under the Statue of Liberty.
During the pandemic Hamilton began posting his gorgeous black-and-white photographs on his Facebook page on the celebrity’s birthday. He’s now in the habit. “Every day, it seems there’s someone I’ve photographed,” he said. And he owns his own photos. After he saw the art department at Harper’s Bazaar throwing out negatives, he possessively held his work close. He would happily stay up late at night inhaling photo-chemicals...
During the pandemic Hamilton began posting his gorgeous black-and-white photographs on his Facebook page on the celebrity’s birthday. He’s now in the habit. “Every day, it seems there’s someone I’ve photographed,” he said. And he owns his own photos. After he saw the art department at Harper’s Bazaar throwing out negatives, he possessively held his work close. He would happily stay up late at night inhaling photo-chemicals...
- 11/11/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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Quick Answer: Currently, Eloise at the Plaza is available to stream for Amazon Prime members.
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Eloise at the Plaza is nothing short of a cult classic that has stood the test of time as perhaps one of the best seasonal films in history (critics, feel free to disagree, but our opinion stands). As the movie approaches its 20 year anniversay, we’ve outlined how...
Quick Answer: Currently, Eloise at the Plaza is available to stream for Amazon Prime members.
30-Day Free Amazon PRime Trial
Eloise at the Plaza is nothing short of a cult classic that has stood the test of time as perhaps one of the best seasonal films in history (critics, feel free to disagree, but our opinion stands). As the movie approaches its 20 year anniversay, we’ve outlined how...
- 11/2/2023
- by Kyle Lamar Rice
- Rollingstone.com
Click here to read the full article.
Don Williams, who partnered with Andy Williams and their brothers, Dick and Bob, in a singing foursome that performed on the radio, in the movies and with Bing Crosby and Kay Thompson, has died. He was 100.
Williams died Friday of natural causes at his home in Branson, Missouri, his wife, Jeanne, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Born on Oct. 9, 1922, Don was the second oldest of the Wall Lake, Iowa-bred quartet. He and his brothers would work mornings on their own live radio show in Des Moines, Iowa, and then head off to school.
Doris Day knew them since they were kids. “Often I would go over to their house, and we would sing together,” she recalled after Andy Williams’ death in September 2012. “They asked me to join their group, but my vocal coach thought I should be out on my own.”
The boys also...
Don Williams, who partnered with Andy Williams and their brothers, Dick and Bob, in a singing foursome that performed on the radio, in the movies and with Bing Crosby and Kay Thompson, has died. He was 100.
Williams died Friday of natural causes at his home in Branson, Missouri, his wife, Jeanne, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Born on Oct. 9, 1922, Don was the second oldest of the Wall Lake, Iowa-bred quartet. He and his brothers would work mornings on their own live radio show in Des Moines, Iowa, and then head off to school.
Doris Day knew them since they were kids. “Often I would go over to their house, and we would sing together,” she recalled after Andy Williams’ death in September 2012. “They asked me to join their group, but my vocal coach thought I should be out on my own.”
The boys also...
- 1/3/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Funny Face"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, Hoopla, Pluto TV
The Pitch: Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) looks to shake up a session he is shooting for a fashion magazine run by Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), wanting to find a way to make his model look like she has more than a thought in her head. They decide to ambush a Greenwich Village bookstore. In that store works Jo Stockton...
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The Movie: "Funny Face"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, Hoopla, Pluto TV
The Pitch: Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) looks to shake up a session he is shooting for a fashion magazine run by Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), wanting to find a way to make his model look like she has more than a thought in her head. They decide to ambush a Greenwich Village bookstore. In that store works Jo Stockton...
The post The Daily Stream: A New Movie Star Meets An Old School Musical In Funny Face appeared first on /Film.
- 5/11/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Deck the halls with bows and arrows. It is a wonderful time of the year for Disney+, which dropped the first Hawkeye trailer down the chimney.
Marvel’s latest live-action series will be a Christmas show, and Clint Barton, a.k.a Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), is re-gifting his archery set to young hero Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). Clint still has the vision to hit a target, but his hearing may not be so great anymore. We can plainly see Hawkeye’s hearing aid, which could end up being the result of an injury suffered on the show.
You can watch the trailer here:
The trailer features one of the most rousing fast-waltz celebrations ever crooned. “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year” was written by the songwriting team of Eddie Pola and George Wyle. It is such a standard it’s been the theme song for Christmas Seals several times.
Marvel’s latest live-action series will be a Christmas show, and Clint Barton, a.k.a Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), is re-gifting his archery set to young hero Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). Clint still has the vision to hit a target, but his hearing may not be so great anymore. We can plainly see Hawkeye’s hearing aid, which could end up being the result of an injury suffered on the show.
You can watch the trailer here:
The trailer features one of the most rousing fast-waltz celebrations ever crooned. “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year” was written by the songwriting team of Eddie Pola and George Wyle. It is such a standard it’s been the theme song for Christmas Seals several times.
- 9/13/2021
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. It’s really Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Technicolor valentine to itself, showing off the studio’s enormous stable of musical talent, along with various of its comic performers. Arthur Freed and Louis B. Mayer’s notion of ‘something for everyone’ results in weird stack of grandiose musical numbers and mostly weak comedy. The biggest draw is the incredible color cinematography that peeks through in three or four jaw-droppingly elaborate musical spectacles. The picture is a workout to find the artistic limits of the Technicolor system.
Ziegfeld Follies
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...
Ziegfeld Follies
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...
- 7/20/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Halston, the famed American designer and subject of Netflix's new miniseries Halston, hung out with some of the biggest stars of the film and art. One of his best friends was actress Liza Minnelli, and their friendship helped inspire his designs and her iconic style alike. We're excited to see Ewan McGregor and Krysta Rodriguez depiction their famous friendship onscreen, though it's different than how things really went down. Here's what the real duo were like.
It was actually Minnelli's godmother, Kay Thompson, who first introduced the future best friends, and it all started when Minnelli spotted a Halston design. Minnelli recounted that fateful trip to Bloomingdale's and her subsequent introduction to Halston in Harper's Bazaar: "It was cut differently - thinner and longer. It was chicer. And I thought, 'Oh, wow, this is great' ... We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate. I did what he said.
It was actually Minnelli's godmother, Kay Thompson, who first introduced the future best friends, and it all started when Minnelli spotted a Halston design. Minnelli recounted that fateful trip to Bloomingdale's and her subsequent introduction to Halston in Harper's Bazaar: "It was cut differently - thinner and longer. It was chicer. And I thought, 'Oh, wow, this is great' ... We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate. I did what he said.
- 5/14/2021
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
“Eloise,” the beloved children’s book about a mischievous young girl who lives on the “tippy-top floor” of New York City’s famed Plaza Hotel, is being adapted into a live-action movie.
Linda Woolverton is writing the movie for MRC Films, the independent studio behind “Knives Out” and “Mortal Engines.” MRC recently acquired film, television and stage rights for the series of leisurely reads written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. Neither a director nor key cast members have been announced yet.
“I couldn’t be more excited and honored to adapt Kay Thompson’s delightful book and character for the screen with MRC Film,” Woolverton said. “I absolutely love Eloise for her mischievousness, her irreverence, her imagination and made-up words. Her playground, the Plaza Hotel, is an iconic symbol of all that’s wonderful about New York City.”
Eloise has been the subject of made-for-television movies, including...
Linda Woolverton is writing the movie for MRC Films, the independent studio behind “Knives Out” and “Mortal Engines.” MRC recently acquired film, television and stage rights for the series of leisurely reads written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. Neither a director nor key cast members have been announced yet.
“I couldn’t be more excited and honored to adapt Kay Thompson’s delightful book and character for the screen with MRC Film,” Woolverton said. “I absolutely love Eloise for her mischievousness, her irreverence, her imagination and made-up words. Her playground, the Plaza Hotel, is an iconic symbol of all that’s wonderful about New York City.”
Eloise has been the subject of made-for-television movies, including...
- 11/12/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
MRC Film has set Linda Woolverton to adapt Kay Thompson’s Eloise for the leading independent studio. MRC previously announced it had secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights for the iconic series of children’s books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.
“Linda has helped create some of the most beloved characters of all time,” said MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman. “We are honored and beyond excited to be partnering with her; and can’t wait to see her bring all of Eloise’s charm and heart and rascally-ness to life.”
MRC Film and Woolverton will work closely with Handmade Films and collaborate with the Thompson estate, illustrator Knight and the book series publisher Simon & Schuster on the adaptation. Handmade’s Trudi Francis will executive produce the film.
“I couldn’t be more excited and honored to adapt Kay Thompson’s...
“Linda has helped create some of the most beloved characters of all time,” said MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman. “We are honored and beyond excited to be partnering with her; and can’t wait to see her bring all of Eloise’s charm and heart and rascally-ness to life.”
MRC Film and Woolverton will work closely with Handmade Films and collaborate with the Thompson estate, illustrator Knight and the book series publisher Simon & Schuster on the adaptation. Handmade’s Trudi Francis will executive produce the film.
“I couldn’t be more excited and honored to adapt Kay Thompson’s...
- 11/12/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Linda Woolverton— the veteran writer behind Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland and classic Disney animations— is set to pen a live-action feature adaptation of classic children’s novel Eloise.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the “room on the tippy-top floor” of New York’s Plaza Hotel. The books, written by author Kay Thompson, have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
MRC Film, which shares an owner with The Hollywood Reporter, acquired the film, television, live stage, and related ancillary rights in 2019.
MRC is working with the Thompson estate, illustrator Hillary Knight ...
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the “room on the tippy-top floor” of New York’s Plaza Hotel. The books, written by author Kay Thompson, have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
MRC Film, which shares an owner with The Hollywood Reporter, acquired the film, television, live stage, and related ancillary rights in 2019.
MRC is working with the Thompson estate, illustrator Hillary Knight ...
- 11/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Linda Woolverton— the veteran writer behind Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland and classic Disney animations— is set to pen a live-action feature adaptation of classic children’s novel Eloise.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the “room on the tippy-top floor” of New York’s Plaza Hotel. The books, written by author Kay Thompson, have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
MRC Film, which shares an owner with The Hollywood Reporter, acquired the film, television, live stage, and related ancillary rights in 2019.
MRC is working with the Thompson estate, illustrator Hillary Knight ...
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the “room on the tippy-top floor” of New York’s Plaza Hotel. The books, written by author Kay Thompson, have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
MRC Film, which shares an owner with The Hollywood Reporter, acquired the film, television, live stage, and related ancillary rights in 2019.
MRC is working with the Thompson estate, illustrator Hillary Knight ...
- 11/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
by Nathaniel R
Three afterthoughts about the 1957 Smackdown.
1. The reader ballots were quite interestingly divided though they were sparser than usual - are we doing too many Smackdowns or is it just that the films were harder to find this time? I was shocked to see that Tfe readers who had seen The Bachelor Party weren't particularly fond of Carolyn Jones who, in my estimation, was the best of the nominees. Overall it was the lowest rated field of nominees I've ever seen for reader polling.
2. My own ballot for '57 would go like so...
Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution Kay Thompson, Funny Face Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood
Though I reserve the right to ditch Lanchester and/or Thompson should I see something better. The speed of this summer's Smackdown schedule has made catching up or revisiting 'extra' films impossible.
Three afterthoughts about the 1957 Smackdown.
1. The reader ballots were quite interestingly divided though they were sparser than usual - are we doing too many Smackdowns or is it just that the films were harder to find this time? I was shocked to see that Tfe readers who had seen The Bachelor Party weren't particularly fond of Carolyn Jones who, in my estimation, was the best of the nominees. Overall it was the lowest rated field of nominees I've ever seen for reader polling.
2. My own ballot for '57 would go like so...
Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution Kay Thompson, Funny Face Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood
Though I reserve the right to ditch Lanchester and/or Thompson should I see something better. The speed of this summer's Smackdown schedule has made catching up or revisiting 'extra' films impossible.
- 7/13/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A witty memoir of the Covid plague days. It is fun and funny and commemorates a time we will all remember forever. A great gift, clever and gay with illustrations that fit the lyrical text perfectly. Both children and adults will love it.
What a fun book!
For those who are in the know, buy this now! All profits go to the World Health Organization’s Covid 19 Solidarity Response Fund.
And it is by Sam Irvin, a one-of-a-kind legend himself.
Remember Kay Thompson in Funny Face and her knock-out performance of “Think Pink”? (watch it here)
Sam Irvin holding his book Kay Thompson: From Funny Face To Eloise (Simon & Schuster)
Irvin’s first book Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise was published by Simon & Schuster and honored by Kirkus Reviews and the Theatre Library Association Awards as one of the “Best Biographies of the Year.” While researching the life of Thompson,...
What a fun book!
For those who are in the know, buy this now! All profits go to the World Health Organization’s Covid 19 Solidarity Response Fund.
And it is by Sam Irvin, a one-of-a-kind legend himself.
Remember Kay Thompson in Funny Face and her knock-out performance of “Think Pink”? (watch it here)
Sam Irvin holding his book Kay Thompson: From Funny Face To Eloise (Simon & Schuster)
Irvin’s first book Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise was published by Simon & Schuster and honored by Kirkus Reviews and the Theatre Library Association Awards as one of the “Best Biographies of the Year.” While researching the life of Thompson,...
- 5/25/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Indie film and television studio Mrc has acquired the rights to beloved children’s book series “Eloise,” written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight and first published in 1955.
The deal spans film, TV, live stage and related ancillary rights. Mrc plans to work closely with Handmade Films, and work with the Thompson estate, Knight and book series publisher Simon & Schuster to develop the IP.
“We are honored to be entrusted with bringing Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight’s beloved Eloise to life for a new generation of children, as well as all her ardent admirers throughout the years,” said Mrc Film co-presidents Brye Adler, Jonathan Golfman and Mrc Television president Elise Henderson. “We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Handmade and cannot wait to see what mishaps and
adventures Eloise gets herself into.”
In the stories, Eloise lives at The Plaza hotel in New York City,...
The deal spans film, TV, live stage and related ancillary rights. Mrc plans to work closely with Handmade Films, and work with the Thompson estate, Knight and book series publisher Simon & Schuster to develop the IP.
“We are honored to be entrusted with bringing Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight’s beloved Eloise to life for a new generation of children, as well as all her ardent admirers throughout the years,” said Mrc Film co-presidents Brye Adler, Jonathan Golfman and Mrc Television president Elise Henderson. “We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Handmade and cannot wait to see what mishaps and
adventures Eloise gets herself into.”
In the stories, Eloise lives at The Plaza hotel in New York City,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
In one of Mrc’s biggest IP acquisitions to date, the independent film and television studio has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to, Eloise, the beloved series of children’s books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Mrc will work closely with UK-based HandMade Films and collaborate with the Thompson estate, illustrator Knight, as well as Simon & Schuster, the book series’ publisher, to develop various adaptations. Handmade’s Trudi Francis will serve as an executive producer on all projects.
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, Thompson’s Eloise books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date around the world.
“We are honored to be entrusted with bringing Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight’s beloved Eloise to life for a new generation of children, as well as all her ardent admirers throughout the years,” said Mrc Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler, Jonathan Golfman...
Mrc will work closely with UK-based HandMade Films and collaborate with the Thompson estate, illustrator Knight, as well as Simon & Schuster, the book series’ publisher, to develop various adaptations. Handmade’s Trudi Francis will serve as an executive producer on all projects.
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, Thompson’s Eloise books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date around the world.
“We are honored to be entrusted with bringing Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight’s beloved Eloise to life for a new generation of children, as well as all her ardent admirers throughout the years,” said Mrc Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler, Jonathan Golfman...
- 12/5/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The beloved children's book series Eloise has been acquired by independent studio Mrc.
The outfit behind Knives Out and Baby Driver has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to the beloved series from author Kay Thompson and illustrator by Hilary Knight. Mrc is part of Valence Media, which also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of New York's Plaza Hotel. The books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
Two of ...
The outfit behind Knives Out and Baby Driver has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to the beloved series from author Kay Thompson and illustrator by Hilary Knight. Mrc is part of Valence Media, which also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of New York's Plaza Hotel. The books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
Two of ...
- 12/5/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The beloved children's book series Eloise has been acquired by independent studio Mrc.
The outfit behind Knives Out and Baby Driver has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to the beloved series from author Kay Thompson and illustrator by Hilary Knight. Mrc is part of Valence Media, which also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of New York's Plaza Hotel. The books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
Two of ...
The outfit behind Knives Out and Baby Driver has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to the beloved series from author Kay Thompson and illustrator by Hilary Knight. Mrc is part of Valence Media, which also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
First published in 1955, the Eloise books follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of New York's Plaza Hotel. The books have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.
Two of ...
- 12/5/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Tim McGlynn
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (Paramount 1970) introduces the title character, scarred by an acid attack, as she leaves the hospital and rents a dilapidated house in small town Massachusetts. Her roommates are Arthur, an introverted epileptic and Warren, a paraplegic who is also gay. Otto Preminger’s 1970 film, based the novel by Marjorie Kellog, has been missing in action until Olive Films’ Blu-ray and DVD release.
Liza Minnelli stars in this charming story as Junie Moon, physically and emotionally damaged by a horrific encounter with a psychotic lover. Actor-Director Robert Moore is Warren, who will not be limited by his wheelchair in the pursuit of love and happiness. Ken Howard is the shy Arthur, who suffers from seizures that seem to be brought on by stress.
After renting a small bungalow from the eccentric Miss Kellog (Kay Thompson), the three set up house and...
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (Paramount 1970) introduces the title character, scarred by an acid attack, as she leaves the hospital and rents a dilapidated house in small town Massachusetts. Her roommates are Arthur, an introverted epileptic and Warren, a paraplegic who is also gay. Otto Preminger’s 1970 film, based the novel by Marjorie Kellog, has been missing in action until Olive Films’ Blu-ray and DVD release.
Liza Minnelli stars in this charming story as Junie Moon, physically and emotionally damaged by a horrific encounter with a psychotic lover. Actor-Director Robert Moore is Warren, who will not be limited by his wheelchair in the pursuit of love and happiness. Ken Howard is the shy Arthur, who suffers from seizures that seem to be brought on by stress.
After renting a small bungalow from the eccentric Miss Kellog (Kay Thompson), the three set up house and...
- 5/30/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Dick Williams, who partnered with Andy Williams and their older brothers in a foursome that performed on the radio, in the movies and with Kay Thompson in a popular nightclub act, has died. He was 91.
Williams died Saturday of natural causes in Burbank, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
The Williams Brothers — Andy, Dick, Bob and Don — arrived in Los Angeles from the Midwest and sang with Bing Crosby on the 1944 hit record "Swinging on a Star." Later, they teamed with Thompson, a big radio star, to form one of the highest-paid nightclub acts in the world.
Thompson,...
Williams died Saturday of natural causes in Burbank, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
The Williams Brothers — Andy, Dick, Bob and Don — arrived in Los Angeles from the Midwest and sang with Bing Crosby on the 1944 hit record "Swinging on a Star." Later, they teamed with Thompson, a big radio star, to form one of the highest-paid nightclub acts in the world.
Thompson,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dick Williams, who partnered with Andy Williams and their older brothers in a foursome that performed on the radio, in the movies and with Kay Thompson in a popular nightclub act, has died. He was 91.
Williams died Saturday of natural causes in Burbank, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
The Williams Brothers — Andy, Dick, Bob and Don — arrived in Los Angeles from the Midwest and sang with Bing Crosby on the 1944 hit record "Swinging on a Star." Later, they teamed with Thompson, a big radio star, to form one of the highest-paid nightclub acts in the ...
Williams died Saturday of natural causes in Burbank, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
The Williams Brothers — Andy, Dick, Bob and Don — arrived in Los Angeles from the Midwest and sang with Bing Crosby on the 1944 hit record "Swinging on a Star." Later, they teamed with Thompson, a big radio star, to form one of the highest-paid nightclub acts in the ...
Anne Marie is tracking Judy Garland's career through musical numbers...
Our time travelling comes to an end this week with a movie that was filmed before The Harvey Girls but, due to expensive reshoots, wasn't released until months later. Ziegfeld Follies (not to be confused with Ziegfeld Girl) is a plotless series of excuses for MGM to throw its considerable stable of talent into a series of comic and musical sketches tailor made to show off the stars - and the studio - at their finest.
The Movie: Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
The Songwriters: Kay Thompson (lyrics), Roger Edens (music)
The Players: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, William Powell, Esther Williams, directed by Vincente Minnelli
The Story: According to rumor, originally this enjoyable little slip of a number was designed for Greer Garson. However, when Garson backed out, it became a number about Garson, lampooning her accent, image, and Oscar-bait dramatic roles.
Our time travelling comes to an end this week with a movie that was filmed before The Harvey Girls but, due to expensive reshoots, wasn't released until months later. Ziegfeld Follies (not to be confused with Ziegfeld Girl) is a plotless series of excuses for MGM to throw its considerable stable of talent into a series of comic and musical sketches tailor made to show off the stars - and the studio - at their finest.
The Movie: Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
The Songwriters: Kay Thompson (lyrics), Roger Edens (music)
The Players: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, William Powell, Esther Williams, directed by Vincente Minnelli
The Story: According to rumor, originally this enjoyable little slip of a number was designed for Greer Garson. However, when Garson backed out, it became a number about Garson, lampooning her accent, image, and Oscar-bait dramatic roles.
- 6/8/2016
- by Anne Marie
- FilmExperience
Simon amp Schuster Audio and Little Simon welcomeTony and Grammy Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters as narrator of a new collection of Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight's classic Eloisestories Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise in Moscow, and Eloise at Christmas Timeto celebrate the 60th anniversary of the very first Eloise publication. These stories will be available in special book and CD combinations as well as an audiobook-only collection today, October 27, 2015.
- 10/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Simon amp Schuster Audio and Little Simon are proud to announce Tony and Grammy Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters will narrate a new collection of Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight's classic Eloise stories Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise in Moscow, and Eloise at Christmas Time to celebrate the 60thanniversary of the very first Eloise publication. These stories will be available in special book and CD combinations as well as an audiobook-only collection on October 27, 2015.
- 5/19/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
CinéSalon Haute Couture on Film opening night - Stanley Donen's Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson.
Delphine [Selles-Alvarez] has chosen the perfect movie to open the Haute Couture on Film series. Stanley Donen, who previously co-directed On The Town and Singin' In The Rain, both with Gene Kelly, is a specialist in connecting painted picture book backgrounds, still objects, colours, patterns, studio sets or actual city streets and making them come alive more vividly than any realism could accomplish. The power of fashion as moving art is a part of it. You remember what people are wearing in a Donen film.
Embryo Concepts - Marion (Dovima) with Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) as "atmosphere"
Hubert de Givenchy had been contacted by a Miss Hepburn to make a wardrobe for Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954) and had initially thought the Miss Hepburn in question was Katharine, not Audrey.
Delphine [Selles-Alvarez] has chosen the perfect movie to open the Haute Couture on Film series. Stanley Donen, who previously co-directed On The Town and Singin' In The Rain, both with Gene Kelly, is a specialist in connecting painted picture book backgrounds, still objects, colours, patterns, studio sets or actual city streets and making them come alive more vividly than any realism could accomplish. The power of fashion as moving art is a part of it. You remember what people are wearing in a Donen film.
Embryo Concepts - Marion (Dovima) with Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) as "atmosphere"
Hubert de Givenchy had been contacted by a Miss Hepburn to make a wardrobe for Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954) and had initially thought the Miss Hepburn in question was Katharine, not Audrey.
- 4/8/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy with Fred Astaire - Stanley Donen's Funny Face
Spring in New York comes alive with Haute Couture on Film featuring the work of Hubert de Givenchy in Stanley Donen's Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, presented by Eye For Film's Anne-Katrin Titze on April 7.
See creations by Pierre Cardin in Jacques Demy's Bay Of Angels (La Baie Des Anges) with Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers and Henri Nassiet. Emanuel Ungaro made the clothes for Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' Gloria with Julie Carmen and Buck Henry. Coco Chanel in Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game (La Règle Du Jeu) dressed Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély and Odette Talazac. Be dazzled by Christian Dior in Jean Negulesco's How To Marry A Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. Yves Saint Laurent's...
Spring in New York comes alive with Haute Couture on Film featuring the work of Hubert de Givenchy in Stanley Donen's Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, presented by Eye For Film's Anne-Katrin Titze on April 7.
See creations by Pierre Cardin in Jacques Demy's Bay Of Angels (La Baie Des Anges) with Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers and Henri Nassiet. Emanuel Ungaro made the clothes for Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' Gloria with Julie Carmen and Buck Henry. Coco Chanel in Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game (La Règle Du Jeu) dressed Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély and Odette Talazac. Be dazzled by Christian Dior in Jean Negulesco's How To Marry A Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. Yves Saint Laurent's...
- 4/1/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marisa Tomei with Tracy Letts in "The Realistic Joneses" (L) and John Lithgow in "Love is Strange" (R)
Jose here. Last week I had the opportunity to chat with the lovely Marisa Tomei about her new film Loitering with Intent (out in theaters and VOD) and I couldn't help but mention to her that she ended up giving my favorite supporting performances of 2014 both on film (Love is Strange) and on Broadway (The Realistic Joneses). Much to my delight - and evolving psychic abilities - my fellow Team Experience members agreed with me and she ended up winning our Best Supporting Actress award as well, so I thought I might share this fragment of our conversation...
Jose: Pony from The Realistic Joneses and Kate from Love is Strange are such rich characters!
Marisa Tomei: I looooove Pony!
Jose: Pony reminded me of Honey from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Jose here. Last week I had the opportunity to chat with the lovely Marisa Tomei about her new film Loitering with Intent (out in theaters and VOD) and I couldn't help but mention to her that she ended up giving my favorite supporting performances of 2014 both on film (Love is Strange) and on Broadway (The Realistic Joneses). Much to my delight - and evolving psychic abilities - my fellow Team Experience members agreed with me and she ended up winning our Best Supporting Actress award as well, so I thought I might share this fragment of our conversation...
Jose: Pony from The Realistic Joneses and Kate from Love is Strange are such rich characters!
Marisa Tomei: I looooove Pony!
Jose: Pony reminded me of Honey from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
- 1/23/2015
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
★★★★★ Stanley Donen's Funny Face (1957), like the industry it so wittily satirises, is beguiling, effortlessly stylish and always in vogue. This evergreen classic receives a timely rerelease from Park Circus this week, coinciding conveniently with the bi-annual fashion circus currently making its way around the clothing capitals of the world. Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) is happy working as an assistant in an obscure New York bookshop. However, during a photo shoot at the shop by a top fashion glossy, Jo is discovered by the magazine's editor Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) and top photographer Dick Avery (musical royalty Fred Astaire).
- 3/5/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
We Are What We Are | The Book Thief | Non-Stop | Ride Along | As The Palaces Burn | Unforgiven | Funny Face
We Are What We Are (18)
(Jim Mickle, 2013, Us) Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner. 103 mins
The story of an archaic backwoods family with very good reasons for their insularity, this spends such a long time laying out its twisted domestic set-up, it's almost as if it's in denial about being a horror movie (remade from a Mexican original). It's a wise decision. If you don't know the family's Big Secret already, it would be a shame to spoil it; let's just say it pulls the story into real shock and gore territory.
The Book Thief (12A)
(Brian Percival, 2013, Us/Ger) Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson. 131 mins
A smart but syrupy wartime tale that traverses well-trodden territory – from The Reader to Life Is Beautiful – as a young girl is adopted by goodly Germans,...
We Are What We Are (18)
(Jim Mickle, 2013, Us) Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner. 103 mins
The story of an archaic backwoods family with very good reasons for their insularity, this spends such a long time laying out its twisted domestic set-up, it's almost as if it's in denial about being a horror movie (remade from a Mexican original). It's a wise decision. If you don't know the family's Big Secret already, it would be a shame to spoil it; let's just say it pulls the story into real shock and gore territory.
The Book Thief (12A)
(Brian Percival, 2013, Us/Ger) Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson. 131 mins
A smart but syrupy wartime tale that traverses well-trodden territory – from The Reader to Life Is Beautiful – as a young girl is adopted by goodly Germans,...
- 3/1/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This elegant, highly entertaining portrait of the influential American socialite and fashionista Diana Vreeland (1903-89), editor of Harper's Bazaar (1937-62) and Vogue (1962-71) and head of the costumes department at the Metropolitan Museum, is directed by her grandson's wife. It contains much rare archive footage, interviews with, among others, her two handsome, ageing sons, and clips from Stanley Donen's Funny Face, in which Kay Thompson plays a version of the flamboyant Vreeland, and Fred Astaire impersonates her favourite photographer, Richard Avedon. It's informative and not uncritical, touching as it does in an affectionate manner on her authoritarian personality and her somewhat cavalier attitude towards matters of fact and the history of fashion.
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- 9/22/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival has unveiled another spectacular lineup of special guests and events for this year’s four-day gathering in Hollywood. Among the newly announced participants for this year’s festival are five-time Emmy® winner Dick Van Dyke, Oscar® winner Shirley Jones, two-time Golden Globe® winner Angie Dickinson, six-time Golden Globe nominee Robert Wagner, seven-time Oscar nominee Norman Jewison, longtime producer A.C. Lyles and three-time Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker. In addition, the festival will feature a special three-film tribute to director/choreographer Stanley Donen, who will be on-hand for the celebration.
As part of its overall Style and the Movies theme, the festival has added several films featuring the work of pioneering costume designer Travis Banton. Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis will introduce the six-movie slate, with actress and former Essentials co-host Rose McGowan joining her for one of the screenings.
Other festival additions include a screening...
As part of its overall Style and the Movies theme, the festival has added several films featuring the work of pioneering costume designer Travis Banton. Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis will introduce the six-movie slate, with actress and former Essentials co-host Rose McGowan joining her for one of the screenings.
Other festival additions include a screening...
- 3/9/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Funny Face" shouldn't have worked. It was a musical with a borrowed score, based on a stage play its author had failed to sell, with a leading man past his prime and a leading lady, 30 years younger, who had a thin singing voice. Indeed, the film, released 55 years ago today (on February 13, 1957), was not a hit. Yet today, it's regarded as a visually sumptuous classic, with Fred Astaire dancing with impossible grace at 58 and Audrey Hepburn in one of her most stylish, iconic performances. Still, as beloved as "Funny Face" is, many viewers may not know of the real-life love story that inspired the movie, or about the film's ties to such far-flung projects as the "Eloise" novels and the counterculture drama "Five Easy Pieces." Here, then, are 25 little-known facts about "Funny Face." 1. The movie's title and four of its songs came from George Gershwin's 1927 Broadway musical "Funny Face.
- 2/13/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Passes Now on Sale Now for Four-Day Festival,
Coming to Hollywood April 12-15, 2012
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds and “Baby Peggy” Diana Serra Cary, along with film noir leading ladies Peggy Cummins, Rhonda Fleming and Marsha Hunt are the latest stars scheduled to appear at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Also announced today, the festival will feature the North American premiere of a new 75th anniversary restoration of Jean Renoir’s powerful Pow drama Grand Illusion (1937), widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. And the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide a live musical accompaniment for a screening of the silent Douglas Fairbanks fantasy-adventure The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
Minnelli and Grey are slated to join TCM’s own Robert Osborne to kick off the four-day, star-studded event with a gala opening-night world premiere screening of the 40th anniversary restoration Cabaret (1971), the film for which the...
Coming to Hollywood April 12-15, 2012
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds and “Baby Peggy” Diana Serra Cary, along with film noir leading ladies Peggy Cummins, Rhonda Fleming and Marsha Hunt are the latest stars scheduled to appear at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Also announced today, the festival will feature the North American premiere of a new 75th anniversary restoration of Jean Renoir’s powerful Pow drama Grand Illusion (1937), widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. And the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide a live musical accompaniment for a screening of the silent Douglas Fairbanks fantasy-adventure The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
Minnelli and Grey are slated to join TCM’s own Robert Osborne to kick off the four-day, star-studded event with a gala opening-night world premiere screening of the 40th anniversary restoration Cabaret (1971), the film for which the...
- 1/31/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
MGM meant musicals for more than a decade after the second world war. David Thomson looks at a time when a little cheer at the movies was appreciated – and wonders if the same couldn't be said now
There had been musicals before. In the 1930s, as soon as sound permitted, Warner Brothers developed what we call the Busby Berkeley pictures: they were black and white, and often aware of the harsh Depression times, but a choreographic lather of girls and fluid, orgasmic forms where the camera was itching to plunge into the centre of the "big O" – think of Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933 or 42nd Street. They had aerial shots of waves and whirlpools of chorus girls, opening and closing their legs in time with our desire. A few years later, at Rko Pictures, the Astaire-Rogers films came into being – where the gravity, beauty, and exhilaration of the...
There had been musicals before. In the 1930s, as soon as sound permitted, Warner Brothers developed what we call the Busby Berkeley pictures: they were black and white, and often aware of the harsh Depression times, but a choreographic lather of girls and fluid, orgasmic forms where the camera was itching to plunge into the centre of the "big O" – think of Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933 or 42nd Street. They had aerial shots of waves and whirlpools of chorus girls, opening and closing their legs in time with our desire. A few years later, at Rko Pictures, the Astaire-Rogers films came into being – where the gravity, beauty, and exhilaration of the...
- 11/11/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (right) in Baby Jane
How's this for a provocative take on Joan Crawford? Although she is one of the most-written-about women of the 20th century (and the subject of the most famous celebrity tell-all of all time, Mommie Dearest, written by her daughter Christina), much of what was written about her was ... an outright lie, or at least partially wrong.
That's the very interesting perspective behind Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto (William Morrow, $25.99).
Spoto is a long-time biography veteran with dozens of other titles to his name (about Grace Kelly, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and many others). But he seems to have a particular affinity for Joan, and even opens the book with her very kind and detailed response to a fan letter he wrote to her when he was eleven years old.
What's been written about Joan that isn't true?...
How's this for a provocative take on Joan Crawford? Although she is one of the most-written-about women of the 20th century (and the subject of the most famous celebrity tell-all of all time, Mommie Dearest, written by her daughter Christina), much of what was written about her was ... an outright lie, or at least partially wrong.
That's the very interesting perspective behind Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto (William Morrow, $25.99).
Spoto is a long-time biography veteran with dozens of other titles to his name (about Grace Kelly, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and many others). But he seems to have a particular affinity for Joan, and even opens the book with her very kind and detailed response to a fan letter he wrote to her when he was eleven years old.
What's been written about Joan that isn't true?...
- 11/18/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
By Sam Irvin (Simon and Schuster) If you only know Kay Thompson as the charismatic fashion magazine editor in the 1957 musical Funny Face, or as the author of the delightful children’s book Eloise, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Thompson was a force of nature: an innovative singing star on radio in the 1930s, a major contributor to the sound of the MGM musicals of the 1940s who created vocal arrangements and coached such eager pupils as Judy Garland and Lena Horne, the highest paid nightclub performer of the late 1940s and early 1950s, a fashion trend-setter, talent scout, mentor,…...
- 11/2/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Velvet-voiced singer, actor and activist who broke new ground for black performers
A handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be edited out for screenings in the American south. Black singers and musicians were barred from taking rooms in the same hotels in which they were performing. Partners in an interracial marriage might decide to leave the Us and move to more hospitable locations, such as Paris, to avoid hate mail and threats. All this and more happened to the singer and actor Lena Horne, who has died aged 92.
Horne not only rose above it all, but also significantly contributed to changing the situation. The velvet-voiced, multi-talented Horne first negotiated, and then resisted, the worst that a racist entertainment industry could throw at her. She rose to its summit as an original...
A handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be edited out for screenings in the American south. Black singers and musicians were barred from taking rooms in the same hotels in which they were performing. Partners in an interracial marriage might decide to leave the Us and move to more hospitable locations, such as Paris, to avoid hate mail and threats. All this and more happened to the singer and actor Lena Horne, who has died aged 92.
Horne not only rose above it all, but also significantly contributed to changing the situation. The velvet-voiced, multi-talented Horne first negotiated, and then resisted, the worst that a racist entertainment industry could throw at her. She rose to its summit as an original...
- 5/10/2010
- by John Fordham
- The Guardian - Film News
Uma Thurman's contract for new movie Eloise In Paris has been made public in an ongoing legal dispute over the film.
Production on the picture, which also stars Pierce Brosnan and is based on the classic 1950s children's book by Kay Thompson, was due to begin in February.
But filming has reportedly been suspended as part of a breach of contract dispute brought by Thurman's Karuna Dream, Inc company.
Details of the litigation have not been made public, but a copy of Thurman's contract has been filed in connection with the lawsuit, and obtained by TheSmokingGun.com.
The paperwork reveals Thurman's $4.5 million (£2.8 million) salary, as well as a list of her demands including first class air travel, luxury dressing room, a minimum "three-bedroom hotel suite" and three cell phones to use for the duration of the production.
The contract states that no other cast member should be given "more favourable dressing facilities" and Thurman should be allowed to purchase costumes and wigs from the movie at a 50 per cent reduction on cost price.
The agreement also includes a clause banning movie bosses from using Thurman's "name or likeness" in merchandising deals for products including "tobacco, weapons, religious items, personal hygiene products, intimate apparel, porn, gambling, pet food and stomach or rectal medications."...
Production on the picture, which also stars Pierce Brosnan and is based on the classic 1950s children's book by Kay Thompson, was due to begin in February.
But filming has reportedly been suspended as part of a breach of contract dispute brought by Thurman's Karuna Dream, Inc company.
Details of the litigation have not been made public, but a copy of Thurman's contract has been filed in connection with the lawsuit, and obtained by TheSmokingGun.com.
The paperwork reveals Thurman's $4.5 million (£2.8 million) salary, as well as a list of her demands including first class air travel, luxury dressing room, a minimum "three-bedroom hotel suite" and three cell phones to use for the duration of the production.
The contract states that no other cast member should be given "more favourable dressing facilities" and Thurman should be allowed to purchase costumes and wigs from the movie at a 50 per cent reduction on cost price.
The agreement also includes a clause banning movie bosses from using Thurman's "name or likeness" in merchandising deals for products including "tobacco, weapons, religious items, personal hygiene products, intimate apparel, porn, gambling, pet food and stomach or rectal medications."...
- 2/25/2010
- WENN
Betsey Johnson is entering the ranks of fashion designers turned top interior designers with her very first hotel collaboration. Johnson will help design an Eloise-inspired suite for the Plaza Hotel in New York.
The fictional subject of Kay Thompson's classic book "Eloise", and later of the "Eloise at the Plaza" movie, will inspire the room's design, which is set to feature the character's signature pink and black palette. The two-bedroom suite is said to feature even more surprises related to the character, a six-year-old who "moved into" the Plaza in 1955.
The room, geared toward both adults and children, will feature Johnson's unique, whimsical style to combine the worlds of the Plaza's well-known luxury and her own fashion-forward quirkiness.
"I'm tickled pink to be designing the Eloise Suite at the Plaza. When I recently moved uptown and my first granddaughter was born, I rediscovered Eloise and hoped that something magical...
The fictional subject of Kay Thompson's classic book "Eloise", and later of the "Eloise at the Plaza" movie, will inspire the room's design, which is set to feature the character's signature pink and black palette. The two-bedroom suite is said to feature even more surprises related to the character, a six-year-old who "moved into" the Plaza in 1955.
The room, geared toward both adults and children, will feature Johnson's unique, whimsical style to combine the worlds of the Plaza's well-known luxury and her own fashion-forward quirkiness.
"I'm tickled pink to be designing the Eloise Suite at the Plaza. When I recently moved uptown and my first granddaughter was born, I rediscovered Eloise and hoped that something magical...
- 9/15/2009
- icelebz.com
Funny Face: Centennial Collection — 2-Disc Directed by: Stanley Donen Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson Time: 1 hr 30 min Rating: Not Rated Plot: While looking for the new, fresh face of Quality Magazine, a photographer (Astaire) and the magazine’s publisher (Thompson) discover a hidden beauty in a reticent bookstore clerk (Hepburn). Who’s It For? Anyone who loves Gershwin musicals and Audrey Hepburn fanatics. Movie: It’s Audrey Hepburn, folks—you could roll her in grime and dip her in dirty feathers and she’d still be an unrivaled phenomenon. And if that wasn’t enough, her charisma in this film is off the charts. She is daring and sweet and absolutely fearless: watching Hepburn contort and boogie her way through a strange, modern dance routine in a smoky Parisian café is absolutely astounding; I cannot picture any movie...
- 1/27/2009
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – Audrey Hepburn and Dane Cook. You won’t find that kind of variety too many places outside of HollywoodChicago’s DVD & Blu-Ray Round-Up. From serial killers to musicals to a British import, this week’s round-up features an exciting variety of titles.
Some of these are agreed-upon classics, while at least one features arguably the most critically despised actor alive. And before you see a certain 3D horror movie this weekend, you should check out the available special edition.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Funny Face,” “Little Britain USA,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “My Bloody Valentine”. Try and find a lineup that diverse anywhere other than the round-up.
(Check out the first edition of the round-up, the second edition, and a few Blu-Ray Round-Ups here and here.)
All of these titles were released on January 13th, 2009.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was released by Paramount on January 13th,...
Some of these are agreed-upon classics, while at least one features arguably the most critically despised actor alive. And before you see a certain 3D horror movie this weekend, you should check out the available special edition.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Funny Face,” “Little Britain USA,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “My Bloody Valentine”. Try and find a lineup that diverse anywhere other than the round-up.
(Check out the first edition of the round-up, the second edition, and a few Blu-Ray Round-Ups here and here.)
All of these titles were released on January 13th, 2009.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was released by Paramount on January 13th,...
- 1/14/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Paramount Pictures’ Centennial Collection chugs along, mining the 1950s and Audrey Hepburn again with the release on Tuesday of Funny Face. The musical, with Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, unlike the earlier offerings in the series, has not aged well despite the loving restoration of the visuals.
Pop culture in the 1950s certainly centered on glamorous celebrities like Hepburn and the films were experimenting with visual techniques to combat the rise of television habits but sometimes their subjects were treated outlandishly.
Maggie Prescott (Thompson) is the force of nature that edits Glamour, er, Mode, er, Quality magazine. The magazine wants to shoot on location, to lend a patina of intellectual sheen to the usually vapid model who seems more interesting in exaggerated poses than anything natural. She and top fashion photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) spontaneously decide on a “sinister” looking bookstore in Greenwich Village, hail a few cabs, and go in search.
Pop culture in the 1950s certainly centered on glamorous celebrities like Hepburn and the films were experimenting with visual techniques to combat the rise of television habits but sometimes their subjects were treated outlandishly.
Maggie Prescott (Thompson) is the force of nature that edits Glamour, er, Mode, er, Quality magazine. The magazine wants to shoot on location, to lend a patina of intellectual sheen to the usually vapid model who seems more interesting in exaggerated poses than anything natural. She and top fashion photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) spontaneously decide on a “sinister” looking bookstore in Greenwich Village, hail a few cabs, and go in search.
- 1/13/2009
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Liza - ask not Liza who - on the phone from Italy:
"I'm in Torino. This is definitely what you call working out of town.
"I'm with Ron Lewis, my director/choreographer who I've known since 1970. We've gotten wonderful notices in Italy with the show. I'm performing at night and rehearsing the new show for the Palace by day.
"In '99, I worked the Palace, and it was called 'Minnelli on Minnelli.' But none of this stuff we're putting together now has ever been seen in New York. Never seen anywhere because we're just creating it. The whole second act's all about Kay Thompson.
"I'm in Torino. This is definitely what you call working out of town.
"I'm with Ron Lewis, my director/choreographer who I've known since 1970. We've gotten wonderful notices in Italy with the show. I'm performing at night and rehearsing the new show for the Palace by day.
"In '99, I worked the Palace, and it was called 'Minnelli on Minnelli.' But none of this stuff we're putting together now has ever been seen in New York. Never seen anywhere because we're just creating it. The whole second act's all about Kay Thompson.
- 11/14/2008
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
Christian Siriano, winner of last season's "Project Runway," will design the couture collection that will be showcased in HandMade Films' adaptation of children's classic "Eloise in Paris."
Academy Award-winning costume designer Milena Canonero has come on board to act as visual consultant on the movie, which is being directed by Charles Shyer.
"Eloise" is one of a series of books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (and illustrated by Hilary Knight) that tells the story of a young girl's adventures in New York City and beyond.
Siriano's designs will grace the culminating scene of the film, when Eloise (Jordana Beatty) and Nanny (Uma Thurman) attend the show of their friend and fashion designer, Andre la Frenais, during Paris Fashion Week.
In March, Siriano became "Project Runway's" youngest winner. He has since gone on to design for Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Kimberly Locke and Vanessa Williams.
Canonero began her career as a costume designer on Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and won Oscars for her work on "Barry Lyndon," "Chariots of Fire" and "Marie Antoinette." Other credits include "Out of Africa," "Dick Tracy" and "The Affair of the Necklace."
"Eloise" is scheduled to begin principal photography Sept. 8 in New York, Paris and the south of France.
Academy Award-winning costume designer Milena Canonero has come on board to act as visual consultant on the movie, which is being directed by Charles Shyer.
"Eloise" is one of a series of books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (and illustrated by Hilary Knight) that tells the story of a young girl's adventures in New York City and beyond.
Siriano's designs will grace the culminating scene of the film, when Eloise (Jordana Beatty) and Nanny (Uma Thurman) attend the show of their friend and fashion designer, Andre la Frenais, during Paris Fashion Week.
In March, Siriano became "Project Runway's" youngest winner. He has since gone on to design for Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Kimberly Locke and Vanessa Williams.
Canonero began her career as a costume designer on Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and won Oscars for her work on "Barry Lyndon," "Chariots of Fire" and "Marie Antoinette." Other credits include "Out of Africa," "Dick Tracy" and "The Affair of the Necklace."
"Eloise" is scheduled to begin principal photography Sept. 8 in New York, Paris and the south of France.
- 7/21/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A nine-year-old Australian girl has landed the lead role alongside Uma Thurman in a new movie version of children's tale Eloise In Paris.
Thurman - who will play Nanny in the new adaptation of the famous stories - will be joined by nine-year-old Jordana Beatty, whose only film credit to date is a fleeting appearance in 2006's Superman Returns.
Beatty beat more than 4,000 hopefuls for the role, including Sir Bob Geldof's adopted 11-year-old daughter Tiger Lily - the child of his late ex-wife Paula Yates and her late rocker boyfriend Michael Hutchence.
Eloise tells the tale of a six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel with her nanny. She first appeared in a series of 1950s novels by Kay Thompson.
Thurman - who will play Nanny in the new adaptation of the famous stories - will be joined by nine-year-old Jordana Beatty, whose only film credit to date is a fleeting appearance in 2006's Superman Returns.
Beatty beat more than 4,000 hopefuls for the role, including Sir Bob Geldof's adopted 11-year-old daughter Tiger Lily - the child of his late ex-wife Paula Yates and her late rocker boyfriend Michael Hutchence.
Eloise tells the tale of a six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel with her nanny. She first appeared in a series of 1950s novels by Kay Thompson.
- 4/27/2008
- WENN
nm0000235 autoUma Thurman[/link] has landed a role in the forthcoming big screen adaptation of the Eloise children's stories.
The actress will play Nanny - a role made famous in two 2003 TV specials by nm0000267 autoJulie Andrews[/link].
Eloise tells the tale of a six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel with her nanny. She first appeared in a series of 1950s novels by nm0860373 autoKay Thompson[/link].
Thurman says, "I'm going to be in Eloise in Paris. I'm so excited. It's a story I loved as a child. It's great seeing that come to the screen. I'm doing that in August."
The role of Eloise has yet to be cast, but it is rumoured nm0002097 autoSir Bob Geldof[/link]'s adopted 11-year-old daughter Tiger Lily, the child of his late ex-wife nm0946809 autoPaula Yates[/link] and her late rocker boyfriend Michael Hutchence, is on a shortlist for the part.
The actress will play Nanny - a role made famous in two 2003 TV specials by nm0000267 autoJulie Andrews[/link].
Eloise tells the tale of a six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel with her nanny. She first appeared in a series of 1950s novels by nm0860373 autoKay Thompson[/link].
Thurman says, "I'm going to be in Eloise in Paris. I'm so excited. It's a story I loved as a child. It's great seeing that come to the screen. I'm doing that in August."
The role of Eloise has yet to be cast, but it is rumoured nm0002097 autoSir Bob Geldof[/link]'s adopted 11-year-old daughter Tiger Lily, the child of his late ex-wife nm0946809 autoPaula Yates[/link] and her late rocker boyfriend Michael Hutchence, is on a shortlist for the part.
- 4/16/2008
- WENN
Jeffrey Tambor and Christine Baranski will share the screen again in another adaptation of classic children's books -- the ABC telefilms Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime, based on Kay Thompson's famous tales. The two, who co-starred in the 2000 blockbuster Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, are set to join Julie Andrews, who was previously cast to play Eloise's British nanny in the films that star newcomer Sofia Vassilieva as the mischievous 6-year-old who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel (HR 10/8). Kevin Lima is directing. In both movies, Tambor will play Plaza Hotel manager Mr. Salomone, an absolute perfectionist who hilariously clashes with Eloise's rampaging style. Baranski will play Helga, the event planner at the Plaza. While she will have a small appearance in Eloise at the Plaza, Helga will take central stage in Eloise at Christmastime, preparing for a high-society wedding Eloise is determined to disrupt.
- 10/30/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress Julie Andrews has signed to star in the ABC telefilms Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime, the first screen adaptations of Kay Thompson's classic children's books, which are illustrated by Hilary Knight. Kevin Lima (102 Dalmatians) has come aboard to direct both films about the mischievous 6-year-old who lived at New York's Plaza Hotel. Andrews will play Nanny, the British guardian to Eloise. Nine-year-old newcomer Sofia Vassilieva (The Brady Bunch in the White House) has been cast in the title role in the films, which will be shot back-to-back starting next month in Toronto and New York.
- 10/8/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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