Candy Darling Overview

To be a drag queen in the 90's is a career, but in the 60's it was a desperate calling, pursued only by those willing to risk a pariah existence. With her humor and vulnerability, Candy could be described as the... [more]

To be a drag queen in the 90's is a career, but in the 60's it was a desperate calling, pursued only by those willing to risk a pariah existence. With her humor and vulnerability, Candy could be described as the Marilyn Monroe of drag queens (anyone who has had the chance to see Candy in Warhol's 'Women in Revolt' knows that she was a superb light comedienne) but her persona was a synthesis of all movie blondes. Andy Warhol once described drag queens as "ambulatory archives of movie star womanhood." Candy studied the movies like a doctoral candidate, and crystallised all her favorite elements of traditional femme culture into a dream life of what it is to be a woman. (Source: Mary Harron.) [show less]