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    Beautiful Darling

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

    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

    Candy Darling
    Andy Warhol
    Julie Newmar
    John Waters
    Michael J. Pollard
    Dennis Hopper
    Chloë Sevigny
    Jane Fonda
    Patton Oswalt
    + MORE

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