Stanley Hall (dancer) "Carmen". The movie was never completed, but Hall stayed on to dance in many well-known Hollywood musical films, including the “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” segment from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Hall enjoyed a successful career as a dancer in Hollywood movies, Broadway musicals, television specials, and live touring shows with Betty Grable, Jane Russell, and Liberace. While in California, Hall broadened his dance skills with studies in modern dance with Bella Lewitsky and jazz with Jack Cole. He also worked with a small ballet company in Long Beach, CA, where he began directing and choreographing. Hall’s friends, the ballerina
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub. The musical opened on Broadway in 1949 (running for 740 performances and introducing Carol Channing), a London production was mounted in 1962, and there was a Broadway revival in 1995. An adaptation called "Lorelei" (also starring Carol Channing) played on Broadway in 1974. It was made into