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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....
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 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.
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,...
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...
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.
