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'Hello, Sucker!': The Story of Texas Guinan
'Hello Sucker' The Story of Texas Guinan Author:Glenn Shirley The true story of the firey actress who took Hollywood and Broadway by storm. — Texas Guinan is best remembered at the firebrand hostess of Broadway's high revel during the Prohibition era, who turned New York's nightlife into what she was fond of calling "an essential and basic industry." In the heyday of her success, she was said to have banked... more » $700,000 in one ten-month period -- quite a fortune in the early 1920's! She enriched the nation's idiom with a cascade of wisecracks and eccentric salutations such as, "Hello, sucker!" and "big-butter-and-egg man," and despite the doubtful artistic talents of her female performers she insisted that her patrons "give the little girl a big hand." Born on a ranch near Waco, Texas, circa 1891, she was christened Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan. Her acting and producing career ranged from the silver screen of Hollywood to Broadway, being most prolific from 1919 top 1921.« less