Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque

by Ted Schwarz and Ted Schwartz

Book Overview

Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas. But as Juanita she had started life as a prematurely well-developed thirteen-year-old runaway victimized by a Dallas ritual known as "the capture" that enslaved her into prostitution, for a time turning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589793412
• ISBN13: 9781589793415
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 9.2"