Texas Guinan

The bartender Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation was named for Texas Guinan. Her biography on her official Web site does not mention her son or her four prior marriages. The number "All That Jazz" in the musical Chicago is thought to pay homage to her. The two have been estranged for many years. She was portrayed in a number of movies, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). Holm is the mother of Ted Nelson, the co-creator of hypertext. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. In April 2004, on her 87th birthday, she married the 41 year old opera singer Frank Basile.

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British Columbia and died there on November 5, 1933 apparently at age 49, exactly one month before Prohibition was repealed.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 remains active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, and for occasional professional engagements. She turned this to her advantage by launching a satirical revue entitled Too Hot For Paris. Celeste Holm has received many honors in her lifetime: she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, knighted by King Olav of Norway, and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992. 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 the 1970s and 1980s, Holm returned more fully to screen acting, with roles in films such as Three Men and a Baby and in television series (often as a guest star) such as Columbo and Falcon Crest. Guinan took her show on the road. The most successful of these was in the 1956 musical, High Society, in which she duetted with Frank Sinatra.

During the Great Depression, Ms. After her famous performance in All About Eve, however, Holm realized she preferred working in live theater than on movie sets, and took on very few filmed roles over the following decade. 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. After starring in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a movie contract in 1946, and in her first two years as a film actress Holm cemented herself immediately as a formidable performer, especially when winning her Academy Award and Golden Globe for best supporting actress in Gentleman's Agreement. She traditionally greeted her patrons with "Hello, suckers!". Her first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard, and Holm quickly rose to prominence with her portrayal of Ado Annie in the first Broadway production of Oklahoma!. "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". Born in New York City, Holm studied acting at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s.

Guinan is credited with coining a number of phrases. She is perhaps best remembered for her Oscar-winning role in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950). Ms. Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, movie, and television actress. Texas Guinan capitalized on her notoriety, earning $700,000 in ten months in 1926 while her clubs were routinely being raided. 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.

She steadfastly claimed that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life. 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. Guinan's own personality. The club became famous for its troupe of 40 scantily clad fan dancers, and also for Ms.

54th Street. Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy in New York City called the "300 Club", at 151 W. 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. In 1917 "Texas" Guinan made her film début in the silent movie The Wildcat.

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. She toured regional Vaudeville with some success, but became known less for her singing than her entertaining "wild west"-related patter. Guinan was born in Waco, Texas and studied music in Chicago before returning to her hometown with hopes of becoming a professional singer. Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (January 12, 1884 - November 5, 1933) was a saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur.