Eloise Salutes the Stars

Eloise Salutes the Stars is a talk show hosted by Eloise McElhone which aired on an 8-station network including the DuMont flagship station WABD. The series started on WABD in November 1949. The series aired Tuesdays at 7:30pm ET in 1950 and early 1951. Other stations in the network such as WXEL-TV in Cleveland showed the series on Thursdays at 7:30pm ET, and other stations, such as WPIX-TV chose to air the show at 5:15pm ET.^[1][2][3]

The show was sponsored by Doeskin Tissues, and produced by Lester Lewis (1913-1988).^[4] After the original 13 episodes were produced, the show was renewed for another 13 episodes in January 1951.^[5]

McElhone was also host of the DuMont series Quick on the Draw, a panelist on the ABC game show Think Fast, and a panelist on the NBC/ABC series Leave It to the Girls.

Two episodes are held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress. One is held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

• David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
• Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
• Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1

• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
• Highway to the Stars
• Look Upon a Star