If Candy Darling were still with us, she would celebrate her 80th birthday this November. But the trailblazing actress died of lymphoma at age 29 in March 1974. Now, 50 years after her death, there’s ...

4/29/1971- New York, NY- Andy Warhol and superstars (l) Candy Darling and (r) Ultra Violet are shown at a press conference. Andy is being interviewed in the Whitney Museum where an exhibit of his ...

Originally from Long Island, Candy Darling moved to New York City in the mid-1960s, before the Stonewall riots of 1969. Warhol cast Darling in a scene in the 1968 film Flesh, produced by Warhol; she ...