Filmography
The film record
Her film work is small and mostly archival. No feature film of her life was produced, and the films that used her footage were made by other people, years later.
01Credits
Films and footage
Years are release years. Roles are as credited in the published record.
- 1951 Smart AlecUnderground film Made in 1951, when she was sixteen. It circulated for years and is the source of the “first porn star” label; her own accounts of how it came about changed over time. Nothing from the film is reproduced on this site.
- 1964 My Tale Is HotFeature A nudie comedy that includes a short dance clip of Candy Barr filmed around 1956. She had no part in making the 1964 film.
- 1970 A History of the Blue MovieDocumentary Uses an excerpt from the 1951 film.
- 1971 Changes, also listed as Sex U.S.A.Documentary An archival appearance.
- 1998 Playboy: The Story of XDocumentary Archive footage, broadcast three years before her death.
Newsfilm, 1963
KPRC-TV of Houston filmed her release from the Goree Unit in 1963. The report, held by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, is the identified moving-image record of her parole day.
The film that was never made
In March 1988 a biopic was announced with Ryan O’Neal directing and Farrah Fawcett in the lead, from a script by George Axelrod. It was never produced. A stage work about her life, Hard Candy, was written for the theatre rather than the screen.
About the 1951 film
Smart Alec is part of her record and it is described here as a fact, not as material. She was under age when it was made, no image from it appears anywhere on this site, and published stills from it were contested at the time.