Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque
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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:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.2" x 9.2"
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