Editing Texas Guinan (section)

==Films==
In a film career that began in 1917 and continued through 1933, she was part of the vanguard of women filmmakers in the United States. Her later claims of being in France in 1917 entertaining the troops, and being decorated with a bronze medal by French field marshal [[Joseph Joffre]], have been proven false by the timeline and California location of her prolific film-making.{{sfn|Hoefling|2010|p=71}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Troesser|first1=John|title=Texas Guinan|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/FallingBehind/Texas-Guinan.htm|website=Texas Escapes|publisher=Blueprints For Travel, LLC.|access-date=April 3, 2018}}</ref> [[Triangle Film Corporation]], founded in 1915 by [[Harry Aitken]] and Roy Aitken, featured Guinan in four two-reel shorts between 1917 and 1918, ''The Fuel of Life'', ''The Stainless Barrier'', ''[[The Gun Woman]]'' and ''The Love Brokers''. Unlike the musical genre she was known for on stage, she was now moving towards the [[Western (genre)|Western]] movie genre, and on her dressing room door appeared a map of the state of Texas, rather than her name. Triangle began billing her as "the female [[William S. Hart|Bill Hart]]" in reference to the industry's first Western star who at that time topped fandom popularity polls.<ref>{{cite news|title=Name Not Enough So She Added Face|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069873/1917-12-25/ed-1/seq-3/|access-date=April 3, 2018|work=The Bourbon News|date=December 25, 1917|page=3, col. 4}}; {{cite news|title=Fourth of July at the Lyceum|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1919-07-03/ed-1/seq-5/|access-date=April 3, 2018|work=The Ogden Standard|date=July 3, 1919|page=5, col. 3}}; {{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Motion Picture Hall of Fame |url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag152moti#page/6/mode/2up |journal=[[Motion Picture Magazine]] |location=Chicago |publisher=Brewster Publications |date=July 1918 |access-date=April 3, 2018|page=7 }}</ref>

[[File:Texas Guinan.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for Frohman Amusement Corp featuring Texas Guinan]]
Frohman Brothers were Broadway producers. In 1915, brother Daniel Frohman and partner [[William L. Sherrill]] formed the [[Frohman Amusement Corporation]], a motion picture business.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Right To Use The Name of Frohman|journal=Theatre Magazine|date=1918|volume=27|page=394|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007979487|issn=0749-8829}}</ref> They made more than a dozen films with Guinan in 1918, including ''[[The Boss of the Rancho]]'' and ''The Heart of Texas''.

During her years with Bull's Eye Productions/Reelcraft, she began to expand towards the production end of film-making, as a unit department head on the films ''Outwitted'', ''The Lady of the Law'', ''The Girl of the Rancho'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541mpw4t7fs | title=Girl of the Rancho (1919, Bull's Eye Productions) | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryfyWO-xKSM | title=The Girl of the Rancho (1919) Texas Guinan Silent Film 8mm Transfer | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> ''The Desert Vulture'', and at least five other productions. She created Texas Guinan Productions in 1921 to produce ''Code of the West'', ''Spitfire'' and ''Texas of the Mounted''.<ref name=WFPP/> After ''I Am the Woman'' and ''The Stampede'' for Victor Kremer Film Features, she returned to New York.{{sfn|Shirley|1989|p=44}}

Guinan was again seen on the screen with two sound pictures, playing slightly fictionalized versions of herself as a speakeasy proprietress in ''[[Queen of the Night Clubs]]'' (1929) and then ''[[Broadway Thru a Keyhole]]'' (1933, written by [[Walter Winchell]]) shortly before her death.<ref name=WFPP/>