Plaza Hotel - Movie Backdrop

Movie Backdrop

• The Plaza was featured notably in the original 1956 TV movie Eloise, starring Evelyn Rudie as Eloise, the child who lived "on the top floor", with cameo appearances by Conrad Hilton and Eloise author Kay Thompson.
• Although the hotel had appeared briefly in earlier films, it made its major movie debut in the 1959 film North by Northwest.

It was also a setting for:

• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Plaza Suite (1971)
• The Way We Were (1973)
• Love at First Bite (1979)
• Arthur (1981)
• They All Laughed (1981)
• Cotton Club (1984)
• Brewster's Millions (1985)
• Crocodile Dundee (1986)
• Big Business (1988)
• Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
• King of New York (1990)
• Scent of a Woman (1991)
• In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), then-Plaza owner Donald Trump appears, directing the main character Kevin to the lobby. In one of the film's more memorable scenes, Kevin eluded the hotel staff after they accused him of credit card fraud by sliding through the Plaza's lobby into a waiting elevator. To make the scene logistically possible, the film crew had to remove the wall-to-wall carpeting, exposing the original tiles. When Trump saw the beautiful mosaics, he instantly fell in love with the look and insisted it remain that way after filming, which it did until renovations in 2005 began.
• Flodder in America! (1992)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• It Could Happen to You (1994)
• The Associate (1996)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Inside the Osmonds (2001)
• Hollywood Ending (2002), a Woody Allen film.
• Eloise at Christmastime (2003), a live-action film adapted from the eponymous 1958 children's book written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight
• Eloise at the Plaza (2003), a live-action film based on the Eloise series of children's books drawn and written by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight
• The Plaza Hotel is seen in the intro of the film Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
• In Bride Wars (2008) with Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway's character was shot in the Grand Ballroom, the Terrace Room, and in corridors and the Palm Court. The film also shows the lobby and exterior.