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ARTICLES RELATED TO Candy Barr - The big-time | | | |  Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - The big-timeWhile the marijuana case devolved into a lengthy series of appeals, her fame spread nationwide and the curvaceous, green-eyed blonde became the toast of the strip club runways, reportedly earning $2000 a week in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. While stripping at Chuck Landis' Largo Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, she met gangster Mickey Cohen and became his girl. According to Cohen, in his autobiography, In My Own Words, he helped her make bail after Gary Crosby told him, "One thing about that br ...
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| | | | Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - Early life She was born Juanita Dale Slusher in Edna, Texas, the youngest of five children born to Elvin Forest "Doc" Slusher (August 19, 1909-May 2, 1969) and Sadie Mae Sumner (October 1, 1908-March 11, 1945). Her siblings were Leota Slusher (born 1927); Keleta Pauline "Kay" Slusher (born 1928); Gary Slusher (1931-1972); and Forest Slusher (1933-2003).
After her mother's tragic death, falling from a moving car on the highway in nearby Victoria County, when Juanita was age 9, her father married Etta Agnes Holden (June 18, 1908-January 19, ...
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| | | | Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - Final years In 1992, Barr moved from Brownwood back to Edna. Living in quiet retirement, with her animals at her rural home, she was content not to exploit or relive her lengendary past. She said she was never interested in arousing men, she just wanted to dance. As Garbo had, Barr said she just wanted to be left alone.
She died at age 70 from complications of pneumonia at a hospital in Victoria, Texas. Her Dallas Morning News obituary said no funeral was planned. Her Los Angeles Times obituary contained a reference to her 1972 book of poetry and the title ...
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| | | | Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - Comeback & later life Barr returned to the stripping circuit in early 1968, including appearances at the Largo Club in Los Angeles and the Bonanza Hotel in Las Vegas. She also returned to the Colony Club in Dallas.
She then moved to Brownwood, Texas, as her father was ill in nearby Kerrville. She was arrested and charged with marijuana possession again in 1969 in Brownwood. Barr later said, "While my father was in the process of dying, they decided to take advantage of my situation there and busted me. I knew the marijuana wa ...
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| | | | Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - Prison term & release On December 4, Barr reportedly left her daughter with her third husband, Sahakian, and entered prison near Huntsville, Texas. While incarcerated, she was returned to Los Angeles, in mid-1961, as a witness in the tax evasion trial of her former boyfriend, Mickey Cohen. She testified that he paid $15,000 to her attorneys and lavished gifts on her during their brief engagement in 1959. She said that among the other gifts she received from him were jewelry, luggage and a poodle. It was her understanding, she said, that Co ...
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| | | | Candy Barr - The big-time: Encyclopedia II - Candy Barr - Blue movie & stripping career At age 16, though she appeared much older, she appeared in one of the most famous and widely circulated of the early underground pornographic movies, Smart Alec (1951). Because of this short blue movie, which is no more than 20 minutes in length, she has been called "the first porn star." She later insisted that she was drugged and coerced into appearing in the movie, however.
Shortly after the release of Smart Alec, and while still underage, she was hired as a stripper at the Theater Lounge in Dallas by Barney Weinstein ...
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