Gita Hall

Gita Hall (6 September 1933 – 13 August 2016) was a Swedish-American model and actress who was the second wife of actor Barry Sullivan and a member of the jet set in the 1950s and 1960s.

Early years Hall was born Birgitta Wetterhall in Linköping, Sweden.

She had minor roles in three Swedish movies in 1951–1952 and won the Miss Stockholm beauty pageant in 1953. In the mid-1950s, she became a model in New York. She appeared on dozens of magazine covers and scored a contract with Revlon.

Broadway columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell "discovered" her and got her into Hollywood movies. (An International News Service story published 26 February 1958, says that Hall "landed in the movies by way of producer Clarence Greene, whom she met at a party in New York.")

Personal life Hall married Leslie Jackson in August 1954. In 2003, Gita moved from Manhattan to Century City, California to go back to acting. Hall had a short lived reality show called ‘ Old Skool' co-starring with actress Terry Moore. The show found an audience in Europe but only had a year run. Bunim Murray was the producer and distributor. Hall also appeared in on line commercials and had small parts in several network television shows. Hall was dressed to the nines in designer clothing and matched her dress for the day to fine jewelry she collected. Her daughters say, 'Mom was the Swedish Joan Collins, she was very fancy and also quick to laugh. She was fabulous.'

Death Hall died of liver failure in Studio City, Los Angeles. She was survived by three daughters, nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Filmography The Still Life (2006) – Art buyer The Gun Runners (1958) – Eva Wolf Larsen (1958) – Kristina