Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff...
Scott spiels and deals like a 19th century bunco artist out of Texas Guinan by W. C. Fields, yet incongruously wheels a shiny red convertible around like a hell driver. His partner, mooning around Sue Lyon's earthy smile, is a love-struck leftover from turn-of-the-century melodrama, yet speaks the language of the contemporary soldier. Like the cars its heroes steal and riotously wreck, the script starts strong but plots its own collision course, and eventually piles up in a harmless heap of miscellaneous parts that no longer mesh. The viewer, who begins by sympathizing with...
...best when he was shaking the hand of some famed figure, leading him to an open car and cruising slowly up the avenue under a welter of paper, ribbon and idolization. And not the raucous cry of Texas Guinan's "Hello Sucker!" or the gallused might of Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial, or the wild, flappering chorus lines of Broadway would ever depict the tumultuous '20s half so well as the one memorable moment when bareheaded Charles Lindbergh, an unbelievably young man who challenged the skies without a huge backing apparatus of machines and men. returned...
...year-old mother of five who started out as a comedienne only six years ago, she now makes $4,000 a week haunting the U.S. nightclub circuit. She plays Texas Guinan in Elia Kazan's movie Splendor in the Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that...