Flesh
1970
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Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar. [2] [3] She starred in Andy Warhol 's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground .
Mar 26, 2024 · Candy Darling is usually associated with Andy Warhol; she starred in two of the artist’s films, 1968’s Flesh and 1971’s Women in Revolt as one of his Superstars, as his coterie of on-screen performers were known. But she also appeared in theater and film productions independently as a performer, though she never studied theater.
- Elyssa Goodman
Apr 9, 2024 · Born in 1944 to a lower-middle-class family in Queens, Candy Darling spent most of her childhood on Long Island. Her father was verbally and physically abusive, and she was bullied mercilessly at ...
May 7, 2011 · Candy Darling was really the first person to implant the drag queen into pop culture. (I'm not counting farcical showbiz drag, like Milton Berle or Some Like It Hot.) She was part of the first ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Candy Darling died, of cancer, in 1974, when she was just twenty-nine, a full decade before I moved to Manhattan, but so great was her legend that there was still much to remember her by. Theatre ...
- Hilton Als
Mar 18, 2024 · Candy Darling died of lymphoma in that hospital room in 1974. She was 29. Candy, who was trans, lived a life ripe for biography. Her friend Jeremiah Newton set out to write her story right after ...
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Mar 19, 2024 · A biography of Candy Darling, a trans pioneer and Warhol star, by Cynthia Carr. Learn about her life, struggles, legacy and cultural impact in 1960s and 70s New York.
