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    Beautiful Darling

    Movie

    Poster of the movie Beautiful Darling
    2010     Documentary    
    1h 25min
    CountryUSA

    The film pays tribute to the short but influential life of an extraordinary person -- the actress Candy Darling, born James Slattery in a Long Island suburb in 1944. Drawn to the feminine from childhood, by the mid-Sixties James had become Candy, a gorgeous, blonde 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 Seventies, at only twenty-nine.

    Directed byJames Rasin
    Written byJames Rasin

    Featuring

    Julie Newmar
    John Waters
    Michael J. Pollard
    Candy Darling
    Andy Warhol
    Holly Woodlawn
    Fran Lebowitz
    Paul Morrissey
    Jeremiah Newton
    Jackie Curtis
    Tennessee Williams
    Lou Reed
    Peter Beard
    Bob Colacello
    Jayne County
    Aaron Richard Golub
    Melba LaRose Jr.
    Gerard Malanga
    Taylor Mead
    Nico
    Glenn O'Brien
    Valerie Solanas
    George Abagnalo
    Penny Arcade
    Ron Delsener

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