She played multiple prominent roles in the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966--71), and appeared on One Life to Live (1982--83). In 2006, a biography of her life was released titled Grayson Hall: A Hard Act to Follow. Hall was born Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922, the only child of Eleanor and Joseph Grossman. Her father was from Latvia and her mother, who had acted in the Yiddish theatre, was from South Africa.
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