Her parents eventually allowed her to got to New York, purportedly to study interior decorating, but she began going to a drama school.
[5] Broadway plays in which she appeared included Louisiana Purchase (1940), Behind Red Lights (1937), On Your Toes (1936), Page Miss Glory (1934), The Pure in Heart (1934), The Wooden Slipper (1934), Lilly Turner (1932), Child of Manhattan (1932), The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930), Flying High (1930), Other Men's Wives (1929), The Love Duel (1929), Precious (1929), Girl Trouble (1928), A Lady for a Night (1928), Speak Easy (1927), The Virgin Man (1927), and The Complex (1925).
[6] Samuel Zierler, an independent producer, put Hall under contract to appear in The Broadway Drifter (1927).
[7] She had small roles in films such as The Winning Oar (1927) and was later featured in the Vitaphone short In the Nick of Time (1929) and The Laughing Lady (1929).
Her initial effort, Yesterday's Tomorrow, was tried out at the Pine Grove Theater in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania.