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Aug 5, 2011 · Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas.
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Dec 30, 2005 · Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) was an exotic dancer and pornographic film star who dated mobster Mickey Cohen and was friends with Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby (killer of Lee Harvey Oswald). Her measurements were 41D-25-36. Barr trained actress Joan Collins for her role as an exotic dancer in the movie Seven Thieves (1960) and later served four months of a 15-year sentence for ...
Jun 10, 2013 · Candy Barr really gained national success in America due to her notorious personal life. Her bad girl reputation along with her blonde innocence caught the crowd’s imaginations. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug possession and was soon earning big pay packets in LA burlesque clubs and Las Vegas as a surprising consequence.
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Whoever said the Barr examination is a terrible ordeal is just wrong. These photos dating from 1957 show burlesque dancer Candy Barr mid-routine, entertaining a crowd with the help of a live band, possibly the Johnny Cola Band, and we suspect these photos were shot at the Colony Club in Dallas, where Barr often performed. Don't quote us on it.
May 21, 2008 · Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas.
- Ted Schwarz
In this news segment for Houstonâ s KPRC-TV, broadcast on April 1, 1963, reporter Bob Harper greets Juanita Dale Phillips, better known by her stage name Candy Barr, as she leaves the Goree State Farm in Huntsville, Texas. Harper asks her how she feels about her release from prison as well as what her plans are now. Phillips was a striptease dancer from Dallas. She was arrested in Dallas in ...
Feb 3, 2006 · Candy Barr was a bad bitch and my absolutely favorite burlesque dancer of all time. have you seen her in “My tale is hot”? WOW! she can shake that a*s like nobody’s business and it’s very surprising that she isn’t in more burlesque films because she was head and shoulders above other big names like Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm and Lili St. Cyr. and I agree with you about “Smart Alec ...
