The popular expression goes: 'Everything is bigger in Texas.' It can apply not only to the State itself, but to the lives of the people who have called Texas home, especially the extraordinary life of ...

Texas Guinan had no reason to be concerned about her health when she left Chicago in 1933. The city’s medical authorities were slow to trace an outbreak of amoebic dysentery to the Congress Hotel, ...

Blatant, big-hearted Mary Louise Cecilia (“Texas”) Guinan and her blonde gang of greenback gatherers, well beloved in Manhattan, approached France on the French Liner Paris last week. Abruptly they ...

The name, ”Texas” Guinan, was as unique as the woman. Queen of the Nightclubs, they called her, and by all accounts the vivacious performer who mixed satirical jabs with illegal brew deserved the ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On January 12, 1884, Mary Louise Guinan was born in Waco. She went on to become the notorious nightclub performer and Broadway and Hollywood star, known as “Texas” Guinan. Guinan ...

Guinan, as played by Whoopi Goldberg and Ito Aghayere, was based, or perhaps more accurately inspired by, the real-life person of Texas Guinan. Though this Guinan was not a bartender, she was deeply ...