Jodie Foster

Foster is a member of Mensa International. The bartender Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation was named for Texas Guinan. President Ronald Reagan to impress Foster. The number "All That Jazz" in the musical Chicago is thought to pay homage to her. John Hinckley claimed he shot U.S. She was portrayed in a number of movies, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). Her brother's biography identifies her as such, but since the book is unauthorized, it is highly suspect. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.

Because of this and because she has lived with a female companion for several years, many suspect she is a lesbian, though she personally has never made any public statement regarding her sexual orientation. While on the road, she contracted amoebic dysentery in Vancouver, British Columbia and died there on November 5, 1933 apparently at age 49, exactly one month before Prohibition was repealed. Having given birth to two sons (Charles in 1998 and Kit in 2001), she has never revealed the identity of the father of the boys or if the boys even share the same father. She turned this to her advantage by launching a satirical revue entitled Too Hot For Paris. Foster is intensively private about her personal life. She made a sally towards Europe, but her reputation preceded her, and she was denied entry at every European sea port at which she tried to disembark. In film, at the age of 14, she earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Martin Scorsese's film, Taxi Driver. Guinan took her show on the road.

She began her career at the age of 2 in television commercials, including an appearance as the Coppertone Girl, and then went on to appear in a variety of television series. During the Great Depression, Ms. Foster has made more than 50 film appearances and television since the age of eight. Guinan returned to the screen with two sound pictures, playing slightly fictionalized versions of herself as a speakeasy proprietress in "Queen of the Night Clubs" in 1929 and "Broadway Through a Keyhole" in 1933. Foster was born in Los Angeles, California where she attended the exclusive prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, before going on to Yale University where she earned a BA in Literature, graduating magna cum laude in 1985. She traditionally greeted her patrons with "Hello, suckers!". Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and director. "Butter and egg men" referred to her well-off patrons, and she often demanded that the audience "give the little ladies a great big hand".

Nominated: Academy Award for Best Actress 1995 - Nell. Guinan is credited with coining a number of phrases. Won: New York Film Critics Circle/Best Actress and Academy Award for Best Actress 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs. Ms. Won:Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress 1988 - The Accused. Texas Guinan capitalized on her notoriety, earning $700,000 in ten months in 1926 while her clubs were routinely being raided. Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1976 - Taxi Driver. At this favorite hangout of the city’s wealthy elite, George Gershwin often played impromptu piano for wealthy guests such as Reggie Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, or Walter Chrysler, and celebrities Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Pola Negri, Jeanne Eagels, John Gilbert, and Rudolph Valentino, as well as socialites like Gloria Morgan and her sister Thelma, Vicountess Furness.

Napoleon and Samantha (1972). She steadfastly claimed that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976). Her aplomb made her a celebrity; arrested several times for serving alcohol and providing entertainment, she would always claim that the patrons had brought the liquor in with them, and that the club was so small that the girls had to dance so close to the customers. Freaky Friday (1976). Guinan's own personality. Bugsy Malone (1976). The club became famous for its troupe of 40 scantily clad fan dancers, and also for Ms.

Taxi Driver (1976). 54th Street. The Accused (1988). Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy in New York City called the "300 Club", at 151 W. Little Man Tate (1991) also director. She became the United States' first movie cowgirl, nicknamed "The Queen of the West." In addition to her film career, she also had a sojourn in France, entertaining the troops during World War I. The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1917 "Texas" Guinan made her film début in the silent movie The Wildcat.

Nell (1994). In 1906 she moved to New York City, where she found work as a chorus girl before making a career for herself in national Vaudeville and in New York theater productions. Contact (1997). She toured regional Vaudeville with some success, but became known less for her singing than her entertaining "wild west"-related patter. Anna and the King (1999). Guinan was born in Waco, Texas and studied music in Chicago before returning to her hometown with hopes of becoming a professional singer. Panic Room (2002). Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (January 12, 1884 - November 5, 1933) was a saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur.

A Very Long Engagement (2004).