
Acting
Candy Darling
Born — Died
1944-11-24 — 1974-03-21
Place of birth
Forest Hills, New York
Known for
Acting
Credits
33 titles
Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American actress, best known as a Warhol Superstar and transgender icon. She starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and was a muse of The Velvet Underground.
Known for
7.5After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
Moonlighting
1985
6.8A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Klute
1971
7.8An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Disclosure
2020
6.9Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
The Cockettes
2002
6.0He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon and his work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself as seen through an artist's eye. 3 part documentary looking at 20th century America through the life of Warhol.
Andy Warhol's America
2022
NRRon Link, Samuel Adams Green, Holly Woodlawn, and Jeremiah Newton delve into Candy Darling’s life, legacy, and the indelible impact she left on the world of art and culture.
Candy Darling
2025
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
7.8An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Disclosure
2020
NRRon Link, Samuel Adams Green, Holly Woodlawn, and Jeremiah Newton delve into Candy Darling’s life, legacy, and the indelible impact she left on the world of art and culture.
Candy Darling
2025
2010s · 4 titles
5.0A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape the reals of art, advertising, and directing. But who was the real man being behind the colors in which he hid?
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
2016
7.0Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life. Filmed at New York’s Waverly Inn and intercut with archival footage and interviews, the documentary captures Lebowitz’s distinctive worldview through her spontaneous monologues and public appearances.
Public Speaking
2011
5.0Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
6.3James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Beautiful Darling
2010
2000s · 3 titles
6.9Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
The Cockettes
2002
4.1Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
2.9Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
1970s · 20 titles
6.8A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Klute
1971
NRDaddy kicks Candy out of the house because she’s been promiscuous and threw a big party.
Candy & Daddy
1972
5.5An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.
Lady Liberty
1971
7.5Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s. In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and concludes with “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
Tally Brown, New York
1979
5.0A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972
4.5In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
Brand X
1970
8.0With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA
Joan's Dream
1975
4.6Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.
Some of My Best Friends Are...
1971
6.6A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
The Death of Maria Malibran
1972
A series of short clips from Max's Kansas City by Anton Perich. This is the edited version of the video in the Max's Kansas City exhibition held at the Steven Kasher Gallery from September 15, 2010-October 9, 2010.
Max's Kansas City
1971
5.8A 23-year-old Columbia University dropout seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
1970
NRPeople call each other up just to fight, such a scene in which Brigid Berlin fights on the phone with her mother about her weight and gorges herself with cream pies in bed.
Phoney
1973
5.0Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Women in Revolt
1971
Taylor Mead plays an aging rock star who is going broke when all of his wives suddenly appear. Starring Taylor Mead, Candy Darling, Darsea D’Wilde, Susan Blond, and Nancy North. NYC 1973.
The Aging Rock Star
1973
Silent movie where Taylor seduces Candy and Tiger.
The Great American Silent Movie
1971
7.0With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.
Andy Warhol
1972
NRConventionally “soapish” drama focusing on Vivian, a broke aging actress who runs a rooming house for young girls and drag queens. The story follows Vivian, the girls, and their suitors, fluctuating between interior studio scenes of Vivian’s parlor and poorly lit exterior shots.
Vivian’s Girls
1973
8.0David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making high-profile documentaries for ATV. With his standing among the artistic community, Bailey was given unprecedented access to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol and his followers, in an attempt to penetrate behind the expressionless exterior of a man who was one of the most controversial figures of his generation.
Warhol
1973
NRA pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film was never finished due to budget issues. 'A regrettable folly of my youth,' said the director, Albert Scopin.
Chelsea Hotel
1970
Anton Perich Presents: Rent A Escort Starring Tinkerbelle, Candy Darling, Alex Bennett, Bert Pence, Naomi
Rent A Escort
1973
Series credits
7.5After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
Moonlighting
1985
6.0He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon and his work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself as seen through an artist's eye. 3 part documentary looking at 20th century America through the life of Warhol.
Andy Warhol's America
2022


