Ellen Hall

Ellen Hall (April 18, 1923 – March 24, 1999) was an American actress and showgirl born in Los Angeles. She was introduced to the film industry when her mother, Ella Hall, got an uncredited cameo as a nurse in the 1930 Universal production All Quiet on the Western Front.

In 1943, Hall joined the Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company of female dancers formed by Samuel Goldwyn, based on the Ziegfeld Girls. In 1944, 20th Century Fox invited her to join the newly formed Diamond Horseshoe Girls.

During her career, she acted in Westerns, a popular genre in the 1940s, as well as family comedies and musicals. In 1951, she appeared in the television series The Cisco Kid. She performed her last acting role in 1952, when she was 28.

Hall was introduced to Lee Langer, a Marine fighter pilot, in early 1944. The couple married on December 3, 1944, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Langer became a restaurateur and managed the upscale Encore restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard. Later in life, the couple retired in Rosarito Beach, Mexico.

Ellen Hall died on March 24, 1999, in Bellevue, Nebraska.