Pinup girl: Candy Barr

Candy Barr

She was born in 1935 in Texas. Since she was very young this blonde haired girl of gorgeous body and angelical face featured a lot of striptease shows. It is said she was the first pornographic actress on cinema's history because of her role in "Smart Alec", a film as short as polemical.

She became famous because her frequent troubles with the Law for different reasons as drugs possession or assault with a deadly weapon when she tried to shoot on her second husband. Finally she served a sentence and was three years in prison. There she wrote a poetry book called "A Gentle Mind Confused" which was published in 1972.

Candy obtained her artistic name because of her liking for sweets and chocolate bars and she became famous in her striptease shows because of her platinum blonde hair, her cowboy boots, her small panties and her cowboy hat.

Thanks to her great success in 1959 she was engaged by The Twentieth Century Fox as Joan Collins official choreographer. She helped her how to perform her stripper role in "Seven Thieves" (1960) a film directed by Henry Hathaway.

Candy was married three times,(the first one she was only 14), and had different love affairs with some problematic men. She had a daughter with her second husband Troy B. Philips, the same man she shot on because of his violent behaviour.

Despite her eventful life she spent her last years completely retired from stages and public life. Finally she died at a hospital in Victoria when she was 70 because of a pneumonia.