Texas Guinan

In 2004, Madonna was set to play her in a biographical movie of her life, "Hello Suckers". However, the project was indefinitely shelved.

The character Guinan, bartender hostess of the Ten Forward lounge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) played by Whoopi Goldberg, was named after Texas Guinan.

She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Several movie characters are based on Texas Guinan; among them are Panama Smith in The Roaring Twenties (1939), Miss Missouri Martin in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), and Dallas Wayne in Winchell (1998).

Her mother, Brigid Duffy, was 101 years old when she died in 1959. Her father, Michael Guinan, died on May 14, 1935 aged 79 years old.

Notorious in the eyes of the feds, who wanted to stop her flagrant violations of Prohibition laws, she fervently denied that her joints sold liquor despite abundant evidence to the contrary. She avoided lengthy time behind bars and had all charges subsequently dropped because the feds could not prove she owned the routinely raided clubs. The Depression took a real bite out of her profits and she passed away in 1933, not the wealthy girl she used to be.

Her family resided in Waco, Texas, at least until 1891. Texas, her sister and three brothers were all born in Waco, Texas, between 1882 and 1891.