Eloise is a lonesome six-year-old girl who lives with her nanny at the Plaza Hotel.

The play was based on Kay Thompson's children's book Eloise.

The play was staged at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.

In The New York Times, Jack Gould panned the production "totally preposterous television", "sophomoric chaos", "a ludicrous hodgepodge", "agony", "childish" (as opposed to "childlike"), "idiotic and contrived, wholly farcical without being funny.

"[3] In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, John Lester credited Rudie with a "technically remarkable" performance given her age, but opined that the selection of the material "indicates a weakness of basic judgment that could -- and probably will -- result in other offerings, equally superficial and nonsensical.