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book review: Kay Thompson: From Funny Face To Eloise
- By Leonard Maltin
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- November 2, 2010 3:02 AM
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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, choreographer, and much, much more.
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