![]() ![]() One of her co-workers said, 'Who are you, little girl?' Thompson replied, 'I am Eloise. ![]() In a high, childish voice, she made her apology. Thompson prized punctuality, but one day she was late to rehearsals with the Mills Brothers. That autumn she opened in Chicago and in February 1948 she moved to Miami for a $15,000-a-week engagement. The show opened at Ciro's night club in 1947 and was successful enough to be taken on the road. She remained with the studio for four years until she created her own night club routine. Beginning in 1942, she worked with MGM choreographer Robert Alton on such films as The Ziegfield Follies, The Harvey Girls, and The Kid From Brooklyn. The show was not as big a success as Thompson had hoped and so she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios as an arranger and composer. She decided to produce her own radio show, which was aired over the CBS network under the name Kay Thompson and Company. Later she joined Fred Waring's band in New York as a singer and arranger. ![]() ![]() Her first job was as a diving instructor, but she soon found a job on the radio as a vocalist with the Mills Brothers. Thompson went to California in 1929, when she was seventeen. Shortly afterward, she appeared as featured vocalist with a local dance band. She showed early promise as a pianist she started to play the piano when she was four, and at sixteen played Franz Liszt with the St. Louis, Missouri in 1911, the daughter of a local jeweler. ![]()
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