Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
It's hard to be very specific about any dates or events early in the life of Texas Guinan. She loved publicity and frequently improvised facts about herself when she felt they made better stories than the truth. She was born in Waco, Texas, but likely not on a ranch as she often claimed. She was active in vaudeville and theater, and was in many ...
Thomas Guinan, Pearl Guinan, William Guinan, Walter Harry
Movies
Queen of the Night Clubs, The Gun Woman, The She Wolf, The Moonshine Feud, The Boss of the Rancho
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Quote
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
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I like noise, rhinestone heels, customers, plenty of attention and red velvet bathing suits. I smoke like a five-alarm fire and I call every man I don't know Fred, and they love it.
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[on her frequent arrests for speakeasy activities] I'm nature's gift to the padlock makers.
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Hello, Suckers!
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Fact
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Three brothers (William, Walter Harry (died in infancy), and Thomas) and one sister (Pearl).
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Mother, Brigid Duffy, was 101 yrs, 6 mos, and 19 days old when she died in 1959. Father, Michael Guinan, died in 1935 aged 79 yrs, 8 mos.
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Family lived in Waco, TX, at least until 1891. Texas, her sister and three brothers were all born in Waco, TX, between 1882 and 1891.
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Met her first husband, newspaper cartoonist for Rocky Mountain News John J. Moynahan, at the home of her cousin, Katie Hoban, in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
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Was future journalist/producer Lowell Thomas's Sunday school teacher when Thomas was a boy in Victor, Colorado. They remained lifelong friends even after her latter-day notoriety.
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Notorious in the eyes of the feds, who wanted to stop her flagrant violations of Prohibition laws, she fervently denied that her joints sold liquor despite abundant evidence to the contrary. She avoided lengthy time behind bars and had all charges subsequently dropped because the feds couldn't prove she owned the routinely raided clubs. The Depression took a real bite out of her profits and she died in 1933, not the wealthy gal she used to be.
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In 2004, Madonna was set to play her in a biographical movie of her life, "Hello Suckers". However, the project was indefinitely shelved.
$800,000
