BEAUTIFUL DARLING: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CANDY DARLING, ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR
Beautiful Darling pays tribute to the short but influential life of an extraordinary person – the actress Candy Darling, born James Lawrence Slattery, who grew up in a Brooklyn suburb. Drawn to the feminine from childhood, by the mid-60s James had become Candy, a gorgeous actress and well-known downtown New York figure. Candy’s career took her through the raucous and revolutionary Off-off-Broadway theater scene and into Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory. There she became close to Warhol and starred in two Factory movies that still shock and amuse today: Flesh and Women in Revolt. Candy used her Warhol fame to land further film roles, and her admirer Tennessee Williams cast her in his play “Small Craft Warnings”. She dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star, but tragically died of lymphoma in the early 70s, at only twenty-nine.
- Taylor Mead
- Michael J. Pollard - C. W. Moss
- Andy Warhol
- Glenn O'Brien
- John Waters
- Gerard Malanga
- Valerie Solanas
- Candy Darling
- George Abagnalo
- Paul Ambrose
- Penny Arcade
- Peter Beard
- Bob Colacello
- Jackie Curtis
- Ron Delsener
- Vincent Fremont
- Aaron Richard Golub
- Sam Green
- Pat Hackett
- Helen Hanft
- Robert Heide
- Melba LaRose Jr.
- Fran Lebowitz
- Agosto Machado
- Paul Morrissey
- Julie Newmar
- Jeremiah Newton
- Ruby Lynn Reyner
- Geraldine Smith
- Tennessee Williams
- Holly Woodlawn
- James Rasin
- Martina Radwan
- Andy Hay
- Zac Stuart-Pontier
- Lou Reed
- Gerald Busby
- Louis Durra
- David Bowie
- Etta James
- Bryan Ferry
- The Velvet Underground
- Chloë Sevigny (Candy Darling)
- Patton Oswalt (Andy Warhol)
- Patton Oswalt (Truman Capote)
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