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Juanita Hall (b.
November 6 1901,
Keyport, New Jersey – d.
February 28 1968,
Bay Shore,
Long Island,
New York) was an American musical theatre and film actress.
She is best-remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific (as "Bloody Mary") and
Flower Drum Song (as "Auntie Liang").
Inspired as a child by blues legend
Bessie Smith, she recorded an album of blues in her lifetime. While in her teens she married a young actor named Clement Hall. He died in the 1920s. They had no children and she never remarried.
Hall received classical training at
Juilliard. In the early 1930s she was a special soloist and assistant director for the Hall Johnson Choir. A leading black Broadway performer in her heyday, she was personally chosen by
Richard Rodgers and
Oscar 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. In
1950, she became the first African-American to win a
Tony 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.
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