- Juanita Hall
Infobox actor
name = Juanita Hall
imagesize = 160px
caption =
birthname = Juanita Long
birthdate = birth date|1901|11|6
birthplace =Keyport, New Jersey , USA
deathdate = death date and age|1968|2|28|1901|11|6
deathplace =Bay Shore, New York , USA
occupation = Actor
spouse = Clement Hall
yearsactive = 1920s-1960s
tonyawards = Best Featured Actor in a Musical
1950 "South Pacific"Juanita Hall (
November 6 1901 –February 28 1968 ) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of theRodgers and Hammerstein musicals "South Pacific" as Bloody Mary and "Flower Drum Song " as Auntie Liang.Biography
Born in
Keyport, New Jersey , Hall received classical training atJuilliard School . In the early 1930s she was a special soloist and assistant director for the Hall Johnson Choir. A leading black Broadway performer in her day, she was personally chosen byRichard Rodgers andOscar Hammerstein II to perform the roles she played in the musicals "South Pacific" and "Flower Drum Song", as a Pacific Islander and a Chinese-American, respectively.Fact|date=February 2007 In 1950, she became the first African-American to win aTony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Bloody Mary in "South Pacific". She also starred in the 1954 Broadway musical "House of Flowers".In 1958 she reprised Bloody Mary in the film version of "South Pacific", for which her singing part was dubbed, at Richard Rodgers's request, by Muriel Smith who had played the role in the London production.
Private life
Hall married actor Clement Hall while in her teens. He died in the 1920s, and they had no children. Hall, a diabetic, died from complications of her illness in
Bay Shore ,Long Island ,New York .References
*
*External links
*
*
*
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
