Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan: 5 November 1933

MAE WEST was shocked to learn that her friend Texas Guinan had died after a show in Canada on Sunday, 5 November 1933.
• • Definitely her own special creation, not unlike her buddy Mae West, Texas Guinan wove a dazzling aura around herself. Since she often said, “Exaggerate the world!” then we can assume she took her own advice. A trailblazer down to her toes, Texas Guinan was a poetry-writing Greenwich Village bohemian, a hustler, a cowgirl, a gun-blazing silent film star, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and she especially reigned as "The Queen of the Night Clubs" until the Wall Street crash in 1929.
• • According to Marc Wanamaker, a Hollywood film historian and archivist, the wisecracking personality and slightly nasal delivery, did not originate with the Brooklyn bombshell.
• • Marc Wanamaker explained: "Miss Mae West got a lot of her style from Texas Guinan, a stage — cinema actress in the early silents who became a bar owner [sic] in New York. A lot of the lines attributed to Mae (and W.C. Fields, for that matter) like 'Never give a sucker an even break' came from Texas Guinan. They all had known each other for years from vaudeville. ..."

Texas Guinan in 1922

• • Texas Guinan's spirit has guided two filmmakers in their latest project. More on this new documentary in another post.
• • Texas Guinan said: "I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world."
• • Texas Guinan advised us all to "exaggerate the world!" — good advice.
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• • The legal battles fought by Mae West and Jim Timony are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," set during the Prohibition Era. Texas Guinan is in some scenes, too. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • Website for all things Mae West: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com

• • Exciting Texas Guinan news is on the horizon. More anon.
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