Texas Guinan

The bartender Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation was named for Texas Guinan. Darla Hood is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. The number "All That Jazz" in the musical Chicago is thought to pay homage to her. At forty-seven, Hood died in North Hollywood, California, of acute hepatitis contracted while in the hospital for a minor surgery. She was portrayed in a number of movies, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). During the 1960s and 1970s, she went to many Our Gang/Little Rascals festivals and conventions, meeting and greeting the various generations of fans. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. And she appeared in her own nightclub act at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Copacabana in New York and the Sahara in Las Vegas.

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British Columbia and died there on November 5, 1933 apparently at age 49, exactly one month before Prohibition was repealed. She did singing and voice-over on TV commercials, which included Campbell Soup and Chicken of the Sea Tuna. She turned this to her advantage by launching a satirical revue entitled Too Hot For Paris. Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as Tell It to Groucho starring Groucho Marx and The Jack Benny Show, where she appeared as "Darla" in a spoof of the old Our Gang shows with Jack Benny. 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. She played a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. Guinan took her show on the road. Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover and cast her in her first adult role in a movie.

During the Great Depression, Ms. In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. 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. She and Granson had three children. She traditionally greeted her patrons with "Hello, suckers!". Decker (married 1955-divorced 1957) and record company head Jose Granson (married 1957). "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". Hood had two marriages, insurance salesman Robert W.

Guinan is credited with coining a number of phrases. She had a hit record in 1957, I Just Wanna Be Free, and appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave singing a duet with Johnny Desmond. Ms. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Texas Guinan capitalized on her notoriety, earning $700,000 in ten months in 1926 while her clubs were routinely being raided. She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. 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. Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV.

She steadfastly claimed that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life. The group remained with Murray's Blackouts during its long run in New York and Hollywood. 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. Shortly after graduation, the quartet was booked by producer and star Ken Murray for his famous "Blackouts," a stage variety show. Guinan's own personality. While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. The club became famous for its troupe of 40 scantily clad fan dancers, and also for Ms. When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, she appeared in a couple of other movies and attended school in Los Angeles.

54th Street. The comedy movie shorts were later syndicated for television, in the mid-1950s, under the title The Little Rascals. Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy in New York City called the "300 Club", at 151 W. From 1935 to 1941, she played Darla in Our Gang. 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. She was then taken to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang movies. In 1917 "Texas" Guinan made her film début in the silent movie The Wildcat. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test.

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. Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. She toured regional Vaudeville with some success, but became known less for her singing than her entertaining "wild west"-related patter. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. Guinan was born in Waco, Texas and studied music in Chicago before returning to her hometown with hopes of becoming a professional singer. She was born Darla Jean Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (January 12, 1884 - November 5, 1933) was a saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur. Darla Hood (November 4, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress.