People named Juanita Hall

Juanita Long Hall, a 20th Century actor and singer, was born in Keyport, New Jersey on Nov. 6, 1901 to an African-American father, Abram Long, and an Irish American mother, Mary Richardson. Raised by maternal grandparents, Long attended New York City, New York’s Juilliard School of Music. While a teenager, she married Clement Hall, who died in 1920s. The couple had no children. Hall’s early career was in singing and choir directing. From 1935 to 1944 she directed the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Chorus. From 1941 to 1942 she also directed the Westchester (New York) Chorale and Dramatics Association. In the early 1940s she led the Juanita Hall Choir, which performed on radio with Rudy Vallee and Kate Smith and in 1949 the Juanita Hall Choir performed in the film Miracle in Harlem. In 1935 Hall performed with the Lafayette Players, an African American theatrical troupe. Her first major acting role came in 1943 when she appeared on Broadway in The Pirate. Other Broadway acting opportunities came and she performed in Sing Out, Sweet Land, Saint Louis Woman, Deep Are the Roots, The Secret Room, Street Scene, and The Ponder Heart, all between 1943 and 1956. Hall's major break came in 1949 when she was cast as "Bloody Mary" in Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein’s South Pacific at New York's Majestic Theatre. In 1950 Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award when she was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in South Pacific. Hall played "Bloody Mary" for over 1,900 performances of South Pacific before beginning a brief a career as a nightclub singer performing mostly in Greenwich Village venues. In the early 1950s Hall starred in the radio soap opera The Story of Ruby Valentine. In 1954 Hall was cast as a West Indian brothel keeper in Harold Arlen’s House of Flowers with Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll. In 1958 she played a Chinese-American marriage broker in Rogers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. She reprised that role in the 1961 film version of the play. In 1958 Richard Rogers requested Hall to again play Bloody Mary in the film version of South Pacific which was shot on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Hall’s television appearances in the 1950s and early 1960s included The Ed Sullivan Show, The Coca-Cola Hour, The Perry Como Show. Affected by diabetes with failing eyesight and health, Hall performed in A Woman and the Blues, featuring her nightclub and Broadway acts in 1966. Her condition led the Actors Fund of America to stage a benefit performance on her behalf in 1967. A year later, on February 28, 1968 Juanita Hall died in Bay Shore, Long Island. Sources: Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); Elsa Barkley Brown, Darlene Clark Hine, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Eds.), Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994).

Juanita J Hall of Bon Wier, Newton County, TX was born on November 13, 1934, and died at age 68 years old on July 20, 2003.

Juanita J Hall of Terrell, Kaufman County, TX was born on April 21, 1933, and died at age 66 years old on November 15, 1999.

Juanita Hall of Marshall, Harrison County, Texas was born on January 7, 1923, and died at age 57 years old in March 1980.

Juanita H Hall-West of Hyattsville, Prince Georges County, MD was born on March 6, 1928, and died at age 73 years old on October 3, 2001. Juanita Hall-West was buried at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery Section A B2 Row 19 Site 2 11301 Crain Highway, in Cheltenham.

Juanita Hall died in January 2013 at Lubbock Texas. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita Hall.

Juanita Louis Wagner Hall was born in 1927 at Beaumont tx, and died at age 88 years old on April 8, 2016 at Lurking tx. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita Louis Wagner Hall.

Juanita J Hall of Hockley, Harris County, TX was born on August 23, 1933, and died at age 67 years old on April 5, 2001. Juanita Hall was buried at Houston National Cemetery Section P Site 292 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.

Juanita Eva Hall of Willard, Greene County, MO was born on January 3, 1938, and died at age 64 years old on November 26, 2002. Juanita Hall was buried at Missouri Veterans Cemetery / Springfield Section H Site 638 5201 South Southwood, in Springfield.

Juanita M Hall of Hollis, Queens County, NY was born on December 22, 1914, and died at age 64 years old on May 7, 1979. Juanita Hall was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 6 Site 4347 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Juanita Hall was born on December 22, 1928, and died at age 84 years old on March 22, 2013. Juanita Hall was buried at Georgia National Cemetery Section 1 Site 378 2025 Mount Carmel Church Lane, in Canton, Ga. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita Hall.

Juanita Hall of Prentiss, Jefferson Davis County, MS was born on August 23, 1954, and died at age 50 years old on July 20, 2005.

Juanita Hall of Philadelphia, Neshoba County, MS was born on June 7, 1937, and died at age 70 years old on February 18, 2008.

Juanita M Hall of Oxon Hill, Prince Georges County, MD was born on February 16, 1965, and died at age 36 years old on September 14, 2001.

Juanita Bertha Hall of Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia was born on February 3, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on July 2, 2009.

Juanita R Hall of Washington, District of Columbia County, DC was born on October 17, 1913, and died at age 82 years old in March 1996.

Juanita I Hall was born on December 4, 1941, and died at age 57 years old on May 6, 1999. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita I Hall.

Juanita Hall of Inglewood, Los Angeles County, CA was born on February 7, 1927, and died at age 75 years old on January 15, 2003.

Juanita Hall of Camarillo, Ventura County, California was born on September 20, 1886, and died at age 81 years old in March 1968.

Juanita Hall of Oakland, Alameda County, California was born on January 3, 1929, and died at age 57 years old in April 1986.

Juanita C Hall of Paradise, Butte County, CA was born on September 25, 1915, and died at age 90 years old on May 24, 2006.

Juanita R Hall of Ukiah, Mendocino County, CA was born on July 22, 1921, and died at age 77 years old on December 28, 1998.

Juanita J Hall of Greenview, Siskiyou County, CA was born on July 12, 1930, and died at age 73 years old on December 4, 2003.

Juanita Hall of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California was born on October 22, 1903, and died at age 70 years old in October 1973.

Juanita S Hall of Newport Beach, Orange County, CA was born on April 28, 1908, and died at age 93 years old on July 5, 2001.

Juanita A Hall of Napa, Napa County, CA was born on March 14, 1912, and died at age 91 years old on June 9, 2003.

Juanita Hall was born on January 21, 1963, and died at age 16 years old in August 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita Hall.

Juanita I Hall of Ridgecrest, Kern County, CA was born on May 5, 1923, and died at age 80 years old on March 22, 2004.

Juanita Hall of Tishomingo, Johnston County, Oklahoma was born on January 21, 1904, and died at age 68 years old in March 1972.