[3] Hall won the declamation contest at Denver High School in 1943, and in 1947 the Boston Globe reported that he was attending the University of California at Los Angeles.

[9] According to Hall, the character he played in Best Years of Our Lives was not developed further because his contract ended in the middle of filming, and Samuel Goldwyn refused to pay extra to rehire him.

He thus was able to acquire early Chinese stone sculptures and "the purported marriage bed of the 16th-century Florentine noblewoman Maria Salviati, on which Hall subsequently slept for many years.

"[9] In 1963, following his acting career, Hall moved to New York City to work as an art collector and dealer, opening a gallery at 6 East 79th Street.

[9] He ran his gallery from what has been described as "a series of progressively larger apartments and townhouses that he occupied on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, each of them filled to bursting with his ever-growing collections.