Juanita Hall

US actress and singer (November 6, 1901 – February 28, 1968) sometimes nicknamed "Bloody Mary" after her signature role in the Broadway cast of South Pacific, for which she was personally picked by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and for which she became the first African American to win a Tony Award (1950).

In 1958, she recorded a album "Juanita Hall Sings The Blues", an album of songs related to Bessie Smith and backed by Claude Hopkins, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Doc Cheatham a.o. Also in 1958 she appeared as Bloody Mary in the film version of "South Pacific", but this time her voice was dubbed Muriel Smith.

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