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| Stage
Name |
Real
Name |
| Candy
Barr |
Juanita
Dale Slusher |
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--
'Trouble' was said to be her middle name. Daughter of a South
Texas bricklayer and harmonica player. Candy was cocktail waitressing
by age fourteen and got her start in Burlesque by working as a
cigarette girl at Barney Weinstein's Theater Lounge in downtown
Dallas at age seventeen. It was Weinstein who gave her the stage
name of Candy Barr and would later work at in many burlesque clubs
as well as Jack Ruby's Las Vegas Club (Ruby gunned down Lee
Harvey Oswald) and was romantically involved with mobster
Mickey Cohen for a time.
-- It has been written that Candy
was the first Porn Star (in Smart Alec) at age sixteen.
Candy Barr, became the most infamous exotic dancer, Burlesque
Star, Stripper and Blue Movie headliner in Texas history. Candy
appeared regularly on the front of and in the centerfolds of all
of the famous pinup magazines of the era.
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Candy trained Joan Collins for the movie 'Seven Thieves' in 1959
just before she got fifteen years (served three) in 1959 for possessing
less than an ounce of marijuana and earlier in 1956 she shot her
violent husband, thankfully, he was not badly hurt and the charges
were droipped, however, later it was reported that he would be
shot to death by another.
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She
used to be the center of attention, both scandalized and adoring,
the aging Candy said later in life "she now just asks to be
left alone." She retired in Edna, Texas (pop 5000) where she
worked at a local
grocery store for a few years." According to The Associated
Press Candy passed away in Abiliene, Texas of Pneumonia on January
1st, 2006 at the at the age of 70 but was actually Victoria, Texas.
Her burial will be in her hometown of Edna, Texas. Candy had one
daughter and grandaughter. |
| Birth
Place |
Birth
Date |
Spouse |
Measurements |
| Edna,
Texas |
7/6/1935 - 1/1/2006 |
Billy
Dabbs |
5'
3" - 37"-22"-33" |
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(some
say 12/30/2005) |
Troy
Phillips |
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(Married
4 times) |
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| Dance
Types |
Dance
Partners |
Music
Titles |
| Be-Bop |
n/a |
The
Ballad of Candy Barr
(George McCoy and the Balladeers) |
| Erotic |
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| Jitterbug |
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| Stripper |
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| Night
Clubs |
Theaters |
Stage |
| Club
Largo (Los Angeles) |
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n/a |
| El
Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas) |
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| Jack
Ruby's Carousel |
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| Largo
club (Hollywood, CA) |
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| Round-Up
Club (Jitterbugged) |
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| Silver
Spur Inn (Dallas) |
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| Weinstein's
Colony Club |
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| Weinstein's
Theater Lounge |
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| Films |
Other |
| 1951
- Smart Alec |
12/1956
- Showplace magazine |
| 1964
- My Tale is Hot |
10/1957
- Joker Magazine |
| 1970
- A History of the Blue Movie |
5/1958
- Gala Magazine |
| 1970
- Changes |
12/1959
- Modern Man Magazine |
| $
1998 - Playboy - The Story of X |
2/1960
- Modern Man Magazine |
| Big
Bust Loops Vol. 6, 7 |
4/1960
- True Confessions (Barr - In Trouble
All My Life) |
| Classic
Striptease & Glamour Vol. 3, 7, 12 |
9/1960
- Gala Magazine |
| Nudie
Cutie Vol. 23, 26, 35 |
6/1967
- Playboy Magazine |
| Only
The Best (Compilation) |
11/1967
- Playboy Magazine |
| StripORama
Vol. II |
1972
- A Gentle Mind … Confused (Poetry
By Barr) |
| Sunsetglamour,
Vol 7 |
6/76
- Qui Magazine |
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$
1995 - Va Va Voom! |
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Candy
Barr Story (Schwartz)
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$
Candy Barr Poster |
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$
Playboy Mag Back Issues search |
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