Deidre Hall

Hall played herself in the movie. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1957. Hall and Sohmer became parents via surrogacy, and the conception of their first child was chronicled in the autobiographical TV-movie Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story. Hull made one more film, The Lady from Texas (1951), and appeared in a TV version of Arsenic and Old Lace in 1949, before retiring. Deidre Hall is married to network executive Steve Sohmer. She brought her two best stage roles to film in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) playing a homicidal aunt, and in Harvey (1950) as the batty sister of a man whose friend is an invisible rabbit, for which she won the 1950 Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She also portrayed Jessica Witherspoon on the nighttime drama Our House from 1986 to 1988. Hull made a total of five films.

Hall's first big role was as the superhero Electra Woman in the 1976 series Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Through the 1920s she continued working in the theater, and in the 1930s had three Broadway hits in You Can't Take It With You (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), and Harvey (1944). In 2004, it was revealed that Marlena was Salem's latest serial killer, only for the show to later reveal that the murders were hoaxes. Hull was a stage success in Craig's Wife (1926), and in Daisy Mayme (1926), a role which was written especially for her. In 1995, Marlena was possessed by the devil and had to be exorcised. Her husband died in 1919, and in 1923 Hull returned to show business under the name Josephine Hull. A serial killer seemed to have murdered Marlena in 1982, but a fan uproar caused the producers to reveal that Marlena's twin sister Samantha had actually died. She made her stage debut in stock in 1905, and spent five years as a chorus girl and touring stock before she married Shelley Hull in 1910.

Marlena has been at the center of many of the show's most controversial storylines. Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and attended Radcliffe College and The New England Conservatory of Music. She is the twin sister of former actress Andrea Hall, who portrayed Samantha Evans on the serial from 1977 to 1982. Josephine Hull (January 3, 1886 - March 12, 1957) was an American actress who had a successful 50-year career on Broadway before taking some of her best roles to film. She played the role originally from 1976 to 1987, and returned to the show in 1991. Marlena Evans on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Deidre Hall (born October 31, 1947) is an actress who is best known for her portrayal of Dr.