Word: guinan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mitzi Green, playing a sort of Texas Guinan rele, does well within a limited range. The rest of the cast has little chance to shine. Max Goberman's orchestra is big and competent...
Incendiary Blonde (Paramount) purports to record the life and raucous times of the late Texas Guinan (most famous of nightclub hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of color, song and dance, spattered with laughs, sniffles and melodrama, and brought to life chiefly by vigorous, charming Betty Hutton. In its own way, it is a rather likable show...
...where she and Lyon put up song writers, gag writers, secretaries, itinerant fellow-players, men on leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
...Percy Hammond, she was "a raffish nightingale"; to Texas Guinan, "just a dumb kid." But when she climbed on top of a grand piano and sang her sultry, brokenhearted ballads, she was torchbearer for an era. When she died in Chicago last week, many a U.S. citizen heaved a nostalgic sigh for the footloose, bibulous speak-easy...
...might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could ask for. But it is an insult to all Harvard graduates, past, present, and future, that Jeffrey Lynn has been cast as a product of our fair institution...