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  2. Holly Woodlawn remembers that Darling's name evolved from Hope Dahl to Candy Dahl, then to Candy Cane. Jeremiah Newton said she took the name "Candy" out of a love for sweets. In her autobiography, Woodlawn recalled that Darling had adopted the name because a friend of hers called her "darling" so often that it stuck.

  3. Feb 19, 2024 · A heavy favorite would be the ravishing blond bombshell Candy Darling. Then and now, Candy represented not only the subversive glamour of 1970s New York—and more particularly, of Andy Warhol’s inner circle of gorgeous and decadent misfits—but also willful self-reinvention. She proved that an awkward, queer kid growing up on Long Island in ...

  4. 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, but ...

  5. Apr 9, 2024 · Jack Mitchell / Getty. 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 ...

  6. 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.

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  7. Candy Darling's birth name was James ("Jimmy") Lawrence Slattery. He grew up in a small bungalow in Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York where he and his mother had moved after she divorced her husband.

  8. Dec 7, 2009 · Dec. 7, 2009. She was baptized James Lawrence Slattery in 1944 but reinvented herself as Candy Darling in the late 1960s after leaving suburban Long Island for the streets of the West Village,...