Following a stint in the art department as prop assistant on the 1979 horror film The Evictors, Hall became costumer in the late 1980s when she worked on the romance The Boost (1988), the music drama Great Balls of Fire! (1989), the thriller Internal Affairs (1990), the drama Love Field (1992), and the mystery film The Vanishing (1993, with Camille Argus and Phyllis Thurber-Moffit). Hall also received credit as designer on the animated television series Doug in 1991.