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Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) [1] 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.
South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and ... Juanita Hall sang in the stage production and took part in the recording of ...
Bloody Mary as portrayed by Juanita Hall, who originated the role in South Pacific (1949) Bloody Mary is a character in the 1946 book Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, which was made into the 1949 musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and later into a film in 1958. The Bloody Mary character is Vietnamese . Tonkin is the ...
South Pacific was made into a film of the same name in 1958, and it topped the box office that year. Joshua Logan directed the film, which starred Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall and France Nuyen; [181] all of their singing voices except Gaynor's and Walston's were dubbed.
From top: Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary singing "Happy Talk", Betta St. John as Liat, and William Tabbert as Lt. Cable in the original Broadway cast of South Pacific (1950). " Happy Talk " is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific .
It was first presented to Juanita Hall at the 4th Tony Awards for her portrayal of Bloody Mary in South Pacific. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public; [2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers". [3] The category was renamed to its current title in 1976.
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The role of Madam Liang, Master Wang's sister-in-law, fell to Juanita Hall, a light-skinned African American who had played a Tonkinese (Vietnamese) woman, Bloody Mary, in South Pacific. [28] Another African-American performer, Diahann Carroll, was considered for the cast but not hired. [29]