Ella August Hall (1897-1981) came from an acting family, and performed on the stage at an early age. She joined the Biograph Company in 1912, worked for Griffith and Sennett, then played the lead in Lois Weber’s Memories (1913). In total, Hall appeared in nearly 100 films.
Hall worked busily until early 1918, when she took a break following the birth of her first child. She made only a handful of films in the 1920s, and made an uncredited appearance in Madam Satan.
Hall’s final film, without credit, was Capra’s The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932).
