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. <sep>, Pronoun: Her <sep>, A: Shirley Grossman <sep>, B: Eleanor