Texas Guinan

The bartender Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation was named for Texas Guinan. 2002 - Winner - Munich Film Festival - CineMerit Award. The number "All That Jazz" in the musical Chicago is thought to pay homage to her. 2001 - Winner - If Awards - Best Actress - Lantana (shared with Kerry Armstrong, Rachel Blake, Daniella Farinacci and Leah Purcell). She was portrayed in a number of movies, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). 1999 - Nominee - Golden Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a TV Film - The Staircase. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. 1997 - Winner - National Society of Film Critics Awards USA - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady.

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British Columbia and died there on November 5, 1933 apparently at age 49, exactly one month before Prohibition was repealed. 1997 - Nominee - Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. She turned this to her advantage by launching a satirical revue entitled Too Hot For Paris. 1997 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. 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. 1996 - Winner - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. Guinan took her show on the road. 1991 - Winner - Golden Globes - Best Actress in a TV Film - Killing in a Small Town.

During the Great Depression, Ms. 1991 - Nominee - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in A Miniseries/TV Film - Paris Trout. 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. 1990 - Winner - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film - Killing in a Small Town. She traditionally greeted her patrons with "Hello, suckers!". 1989 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Last Temptation of Christ. "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". 1988 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - A World Apart (shared with Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi).

Guinan is credited with coining a number of phrases. 1987 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - Shy People. Ms. 1987 - Nominee - BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress - Hannah and Her Sisters. Texas Guinan capitalized on her notoriety, earning $700,000 in ten months in 1926 while her clubs were routinely being raided. 1970 - Nominee - Laurel Awards - Female New Face - Last Summer. 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. 1967 - Winner - Western Heritage Awards - Fictional Television Drama - The Monroes (shared with cast and crew).

She steadfastly claimed that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life. In what one hopes will not be her last hurrah as a film actress, she gave an unforgettable performance as Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel "The Portrait of a Lady" - earning an Oscar nomination and winning the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics. 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. But as an actress in her forties, she was once more forced into smaller independent films and television work. Guinan's own personality. In 1990 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her harrowing turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in "A Killing in a Small Town". The club became famous for its troupe of 40 scantily clad fan dancers, and also for Ms. For her role in the 1988 Bette Midler sudser "Beaches", she injected collagen into her lips - an act that drew a ridiculous amount on negative media coverage.

54th Street. In mid-decade, she followed the commercial success of "Hannah and Her Sisters" with unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Scorsese's long-awaited but fatally controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ". Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy in New York City called the "300 Club", at 151 W. Her performance as Glynnis Yeager in Philip Kaufman's 1983 film of "The Right Stuff" marked the true beginning of her career renaissance. 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. Yet even in such uninspiring material, Hershey found the means of a giving committed, affecting performance - sufficiently impressing Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in "Falling Down". In 1917 "Texas" Guinan made her film début in the silent movie The Wildcat. She would still need to pay dues in unglamorous vehicles like 1981's exploitation shocker "The Entity", where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force.

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. The road back to industry acceptance would not be short or smooth. She toured regional Vaudeville with some success, but became known less for her singing than her entertaining "wild west"-related patter. But her excellent work in Richard Rush's 1980 critical favorite "The Stunt Man" - her first big screen appearance in four years - served as a reminder to Hollywood that there was still a notably beautiful and talented actress in their midst. Guinan was born in Waco, Texas and studied music in Chicago before returning to her hometown with hopes of becoming a professional singer. However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s she was reduced to appearing in made-for-TV embarrassments like "Flood!" and "Sunshine Christmas". Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (January 12, 1884 - November 5, 1933) was a saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur. In characteristically free-spirited fashion, they would later recreate their love scene in a hay-filled boxcar for a Playboy magazine pictorial.

Hershey's co-star in "Boxcar Bertha" was once again David Carradine. Adapting that book into a film would become a 16 year labor of love for Scorsese, who would eventually cast Hershey as Mary Magdalene - though not before making her audition, to prove that she had earned it. This image helped secure her the starring role in the 1972 Roger Corman production "Boxcar Bertha", which was being directed on the cheap by a fresh-out-of-film-school talent named Martin Scorsese. During filming, Hershey gave Scorsese a copy of her favorite book - Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Last Temptation of Christ". Her 1970 film "The Baby Maker" explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and cemented her image as a free-spirited hippie.

Hershey felt a sense of personal responsibility for its death and went by the name of Barbara Seagull for several years in the early 1970s as a tribute to the creature. During the filming of a scene for "Last Summer", a seagull was killed. Hershey's powerful performance as a manipulative queen bee made a large impression on Woody Allen, who would later foster her mid-80s career revival by casting her in his greatest commercial success "Hannah and Her Sisters". The film received an X rating for an unflinching rape scene and earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for co-star Cathy Burns.

Later that year came the shocking drama "Last Summer", based on the novel by Evan Hunter (better known for his police procedurals written under the pseudonym Ed McBain) and directed by future "Mommy Dearest" helmsman Frank Perry. (He later chose the name Tom for himself.). They became a romantic couple and a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture - famously naming their child Free. This was followed by the 1969 Glenn Ford western "Heaven With A Gun", where one of her co-stars was future "Kung Fu" star David Carradine.

Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy "With Six You Get Eggroll" - which also marked Doris Day's final screen appearance. She found working on "The Monroes" to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up with roles in the television series The Monroes (1966). She attended Hollywood High School and quickly found her vocation.

One of America's most accomplished actresses, Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California where her father was a professional gambler. 5 February 1948) known for her many film roles. Barbara Hershey is an American actress (b.