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Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar. She starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.
Apr 9, 2024 · April 9, 2024. About midway through the movie Klute, as Jane Fonda, playing a young woman named Bree Daniels, mazes through a sweat-soaked club, the actor Candy Darling appears in the crowd....
May 7, 2011 · Beautiful Darling, the haunting new documentary about the Andy Warhol superstar and pioneering drag-queen transsexual Candy Darling, includes a detail that may not seem to be that big a deal,...
Feb 25, 2024 · Captured in celluloid by Andy Warhol and immortalized by Lou Reed in two of his most enduring songs, Candy Darling accomplished a lot during her too-brief life. In the 50 years since she died of...
Mar 26, 2024 · While originally from Long Island, as immortalized in Lou Reed’s 1972 song “Walk on the Wild Side,” Candy rarely had a stable place to live. She lived a life of in-betweens, stunted by others’ social and artistic shortsightedness, fear, or what we’d call transphobia today.
Apr 8, 2024 · Books. The Warhol “Superstar” Candy Darling and the Fight to Be Seen. The sui-generis trans actress inspired works by Warhol, Lou Reed, and others, yet never broke through to the mainstream...
Mar 18, 2024 · Warhol superstar Candy Darling is synonymous with doomed glamour — a gorgeous woman playing a dying gorgeous woman. The image of her laid up in the hospital, looking ready for her close-up in...
