| 词条 | Juanita Hall |
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| name = Juanita Hall | image = File:Hall as Bloody Mary.jpg | caption = Juanita Hall playing Bloody Mary in the original production of South Pacific | birth_name = Juanita Long | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1901|11|06}} | birth_place = Keyport, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1968|02|28|1901|11|06}} | death_place = Bay Shore, New York, U.S. | occupation = Actress and singer | spouse = Clement Hall | yearsactive = 1920s–1960s }} Juanita Hall (née Long, 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 the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary – a role that garnered her the Tony Award – and Flower Drum Song as Madame Liang. BiographyBorn in Keyport, New Jersey, Hall received classical training at the Juilliard 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 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to perform the roles she played in the musicals South Pacific and Flower Drum Song, as a Tonkinese woman and a Chinese-American, respectively. {{citation needed|date=May 2014}} 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 starring Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin. She played the role for 1,925 performances on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre beginning on April 7, 1949. She also starred in the 1954 Broadway musical House of Flowers in which she sang and danced Harold Arlen's Slide Boy Slide. In addition to her role in South Pacific, she was a regular performer in clubs in Greenwich Village, where she captivated audiences with her renditions of "Am I Blue?", "Lament Over Love", and Langston Hughes' "Cool Saturday Night". Prior to her acting roles, she assembled her own chorus group,The Juanita Hall Choir, and kept busy with performances in concert, on records, in films, and on the air. She auditioned for "Talent 48", a private review created by the Stage Manager's Club. Later, she performed on radio in the soap opera The Story Of Ruby Valentine on the National Negro Network. The serial was broadcast on 35 stations, and sponsors of the broadcast included Philip Morris and Pet Milk.[1] In 1958, she recorded Juanita Hall Sings the Blues (at Beltone Studios in New York City), backed by an astonishing group of jazz musicians including Claude Hopkins, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Doc Cheatham, and George Duvivier. 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. The same year, Hall starred in another Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show, Flower Drum Song.[2] Private lifeHall married actor Clement Hall while in her teens. He died in the 1920s; they had no children. Hall, a diabetic, died from complications of her illness. She had been living at the Percy William Actors home in East Islip, New York. Partial filmography
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio|year=1999|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=1-56639-667-0|author=William Barlow|pages=130–1}} 2. ^{{cite book|author=Lewis, David H.|year=2006|title=Flower Drum Songs: The Story of Two Musicals|publisher=McFarland and Co. Inc.|page=46|location=Jefferson, NC|isbn=0-7864-2246-7}} Sources
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