Tex guinan biography for kids

Originally from: Waco, Texas
Profession: Bar owner
At: New York

As more and more 'speakeasies' open, we profile Mary Louise "Texas" Guinan, one of the true icons of Prohibition.

You can take the girl out of convent school.

But it's rather more difficult to take the convent school out of the girl. And Mary Louise Cecelia "Tex" Guinan, born Irish Catholic in Texas, became so synonymous with all that was naughty that she and her troupe of dancing gals were banned from entering both France and England.

After making her name on stage in New York, Tex made her way West for a career in movies, playing first vamps then Western heroines on the silent screen.

Unusually for a woman then or now, she did all her own stunts, and even formed her own production company in 1922 - after her death, she would herself be immortalised in a film titled Incendiary Blonde.

While Tex's business empire extended to fat reduction pills, it was her verbal wit and manicured good l