Candy Barr was called "the first porn star." in the mid 50s she became one of the top strippers in the country, eaning $100,000 a year with her 5'4" 38-22-36 curvaceous body.
She was a exotic dancer and pornographic film star who dated mobster Mickey Cohen and was friends with Dallas club owner Jack Ruby (killer of Lee Harvey Oswald), who trained actress Joan Collins for her role as an exotic dancer in the 1960 movie Seven Thieves, and who later served 4 months of a 15 year sentence for possessing less than four-fifths of an ounce of marijuana, ending her career, died of pneumonia in an Abilene, Texas on December 30, 2005.
