Web“over 90 percent of the people who write or talk about me have never met me,” declares denise hale, paragon of san francisco and international society for over. Webthen, movie director vincente minnelli whisked her off to hollywood, where she quickly became a leading lady in a rarified social scene, attending the most famous. Webdenise minnelli hale is one of san francisco’s most famous and enduring truly glamorous jet setters. (ann getty runs her design firm and keeps a lower profile these days. ). Webdenise hale, the renowned—and delightfully atypical—member of the gilded village known as san francisco high society, met me for lunch at the bustling and.