In Memory of..........

[qwerty17]

Originally Posted by paulnelson

Candy now and then. Also as a seasoned lady she is still in good shape and she still provides an erotic attraction.

"was" in good shape.
She died in 2005.

[paulnelson]

Quote:
Originally Posted by qwerty17
"was" in good shape.
She died in 2005.

Thanks for your advice qwerty17 – I really didn’t know it respectively I didn’t check it.

So I would like to change my words as follows :

Candy Barr (1935 – 2005) in former times and just some years ago.





On the foto she appears to be in good shape also as a seasoned lady and she still provides an erotic attraction.

Here is an article about her in THE NEW YORK TIMES :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/ar...arr.html/?_r=0

Candy Barr, 70, Stripper and Star of 1950's Stag Film, Dies

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: January 4, 2006
Candy Barr, an exotic dancer whose hardscrabble life became Texas legend as she befriended Jack Ruby (who killed President John F. Kennedy's assassin), dated a mobster, shot her husband went to prison for drug possession, and starred - unwillingly, she insisted - in a famous stag film, died on Friday in Victoria, Tex. She was 70.
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Associated Press, 1975
Candy Barr
The Slavik Funeral Home in Edna, Tex., confirmed the death, but provided no details. The Associated Press said she died of pneumonia.
Miss Barr said she was forced in 1951 at 16 to play the lead in a grainy black-and-white erotic movie titled "Smart Aleck." The plot, such as it is, begins with a traveling salesman luring the teenager from the swimming pool into his motel room.
Al Di Lauro and Gerald Rabkin, in their 1976 book, "Dirty Movies: An Illustrated History of the Stag Film," called it "the single most popular film of the genre." They refer to Miss Barr as "the first pornographic star" and liken her to Lenny Bruce as a subverter of official morality. The film was not shown in theaters, but was a hit on the bachelor party and smoker circuit.
Many decades after the film and her subsequent fame as a striptease artist, Miss Barr was listed by Playboy magazine in 1999 as one of the 20th century's most desirable women.
For students of the Kennedy assassination, it is her friendship with Mr. Ruby, a nightclub owner, that is most provocative. They were friends over the years, and seven months before the assassination, he visited Miss Barr after her release from prison and gave her two dachshund puppies. He thought she should breed them.
Miss Barr coached Joan Collins on how to portray an exotic dancer in the 1960 film "Seven Thieves," getting credit as technical adviser. Farrah Fawcett conferred with Miss Barr about playing her in a biographical film but never did.
She was born Juanita Dale Slusher on July 6, 1935, in Edna, Tex. Though she told Inside Detective magazine in 1959 that she was fed up with notoriety and hated being called Candy Barr, she went back and forth and never really relinquished the name. At her last public appearance in 1998, to open the Ruby Room at a Dallas club, she was Candy.
As a young child, she said in an interview with Oui magazine in 1976, she was molested by a male babysitter. When she was 9, her mother died. Her father remarried, and she said the harsh discipline of her stepmother impelled her to run away when she was in the ninth grade. A marriage at 14 to a safecracker ended in divorce.
She said a man she met at a club forced her to do the blue movie, sometimes saying he drugged her.
"I was taken, done and that was it," she told Oui.
She dyed her hair blond and progressed from cigarette girl to an exotic dancer well known enough to require a flashy name. She loved chocolate, hence Candy Barr.
She shot her second of four husbands in the stomach in January 1956 after he came home drunk and threatened her. He said that he deserved it, and a grand jury dismissed charges. She soon got a booking to strip in Las Vegas, and, in 1957, played a comedy role in a legitimate theater in Dallas.
Later that year she was arrested for possession of marijuana in a case that drew wide attention because of Texas's tough new drug laws and questions about the legality of wiretapping by the Dallas police. During her appeal, she made $2,000 a week stripping in Las Vegas and Los Angeles to music specially composed for her. Around this time, she dated Mickey Cohen, an infamous mobster in the West.
After the Texas Supreme Court upheld her conviction, she served three years of a 15-year sentence. She wrote a poetry book in prison and emerged in a somber black outfit, quoting Bible verses. Around 1970, she largely disappeared from public view, with the notable exception of a nude pictorial feature in Oui, done when she was 41.
"Let the world find someone else to talk about," she said in an interview with Texas Monthly in 2001. "I like being left alone."
Ms. Barr is survived by a daughter and a sister.

[lileo]

RIP Angel Rain (1981-2013)
http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary...Rain-Angel.php

http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...ght=Angel+Rain

[Mr Sparkle]

Originally Posted by kilted_kid

Are you sure, because I looked at other websites and there was no indication of a date of death or anything, not even at IMBD. And the date of the death, it seems odd. If she died years ago, why are we hearing about it now?

This is the same feeling I have about Kitty Yung. I'm seeing on IMD and IAFD that she died in 2004 (just a couple of years after I last spoke with or saw her!), but hadn't heard anything about it until this past year.

[katnuk]

Does anyone know what happened to Angel Rain... suicide?

[JayC79]

RIP to porn pioneer Gloria Leonard who passed away yesterday after suffering a massive stroke a few days earlier. She was 73. In addition to being an important person in the early years of porn, she spoke out and fought for the porn industry and free speech for many years.

[LargeBreastFan]

Originally Posted by JayC79

RIP to porn pioneer Gloria Leonard who passed away yesterday after suffering a massive stroke a few days earlier. She was 73. In addition to being an important person in the early years of porn, she spoke out and fought for the porn industry and free speech for many years.

Another one from the Golden Age.

[kevin1968]

Originally Posted by gmanuelian

She had a wikipedia page that said she got married and moved to Mexico. She was in So. Cal in the early 2000s (like 02). But never heard anything about her passing.

I am a really big fan of Aja and just found out about her passing through IMDB and IAFD.
Not much is really mentioned other than she died in 2006.
Her Obituary is still listed, but without a picture.

Barbara Lynn Tanguay-Emert (1963-2006)
Obituary: Barbara L. Tanguay-Emert, 43
Barbara L. Tanguay-Emert, 43, formerly of Westbrook, ME. died Sept. 18, 2006, in Mexico.
She was born in Westbrook, Maine where she was raised and educated, the daughter of David Tanguay and Diana Giguere. She graduated from Westbrook High School.
She is survived by her father of Virginia Beach, Va.; her mother of Westbrook; a son, Donald Cunningham, and a daughter, Elizabeth Cunningham, both of California; a brother, Michael Tanguay of Illinois, and a sister, Renee Tanguay of South Portland.
Visiting hours will be from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday at Blais & Hay Funeral Home, 35 Church St., Westbrook.

RIP Aja...you will not be forgotten.

[dhream]

Originally Posted by Mr Sparkle

This is the same feeling I have about Kitty Yung. I'm seeing on IMD and IAFD that she died in 2004 (just a couple of years after I last spoke with or saw her!), but hadn't heard anything about it until this past year.

When and how exactly? Is it confirmed? What a shock! Kitty seemed so full of life and energy, even when she did some rubbish pro am stuff long after her star waned... I heard from two buddies that she used to work the strip in Vegas turning tricks and stripping, and tricking out of clubs as well... what a shame if she has left us, RIP, babe!

UPDATE: Not much of one, nothing on the "Dead PS" site or IAFD they just cross refrence each other, all they have is date of death 20 November 2004.

[dhream]

While searching for Kitty Yung I also earned that Alliyah Yi a Korean/German performer born in the US died aged just 35, on October 20, 2012.
Listed in Dead PS in the 'Combo1' section (whatever that means).
She was not particularly active AFAIK, had a somewhat pretty look and great body, one of my favourites. No further details to hand...
Another one gone far too soon!
R.I.P Alliyah.