1. Candy Darling was an American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar.
16 Facts About Candy Darling
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Candy Darling starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.
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Candy Darling was born James Lawrence Slattery in Forest Hills, Queens, as the child of Theresa Slattery, a bookkeeper at Manhattan's Jockey Club, and John F Slattery, a racetrack worker whom she described as a violent alcoholic.
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Candy Darling spent much of her childhood watching television and old Hollywood movies, from which she learned to impersonate her favorite actresses such as Joan Bennett and Kim Novak.
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Candy Darling took a strong interest in the Million Dollar Movie broadcast on television, which she would often watch several times a day.
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Candy Darling met Jeremiah Newton in the summer of 1966, when Newton was on his first trip to Greenwich Village from his home in Flushing, Queens.
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Jackie Curtis said that Candy Darling adopted the name from a well-known Off Broadway actress named Hope Stansbury, with whom she lived for a few months in an apartment behind the Caffe Cino.
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Candy Darling worked for a short time as a barmaid at Slugger Ann's, the bar owned by Jackie Curtis's grandmother.
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Candy Darling went on to appear in other independent films, including Silent Night, Bloody Night, Wynn Chamberlain's Brand X, and a co-starring role in Some of My Best Friends Are.
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Candy Darling appeared in Klute with Jane Fonda and Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren.
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Candy Darling was in the original 1972 production of Tennessee Williams' play Small Craft Warnings, cast at Williams' request.
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Candy Darling performed in the English version opposite Hortensia Colorado, and the Spanish version was performed by Magaly Alabau and Graciela Mas.
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Candy Darling died of lymphoma on March 21,1974, aged 29, at the Columbus Hospital division of the Cabrini Health Care Center.
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Candy Darling's funeral, held at the Frank E Campbell Funeral Chapel, was attended by huge crowds.
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Candy Darling was cremated, and her ashes were interred by Jeremiah Newton in the Cherry Valley Cemetery in Cherry Valley, New York, a village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains.