According to a recent "Candy's Column" in Juggs, she is now "happily married and happily retired.".Candy was immortalized by the Zodiac Killers in the song "I Want a Girl Just Like Candy Samples." ].She died in September 2019, cause of death was not given. A natural brunette, she often wore blonde (both yellow and platinum) wigs while being photographed and on the dancing circuit. She is retired from the dancing circuit as well as from pornographic films. She has written a monthly column, "Candy's Column," in Juggs magazine for a number of years. Later in the 1980s, Candy returned to hardcore.Ĭandy was a feature dancer for many years from the 1970s into the 1990s. approached me to model for him and when he said it was nude modeling, I thought 'maybe'." About two weeks later I called him and my career was launched." (best guess of the timeframe here: 1968-1969).ĭuring this period, Candy made 4 or 5 hardcore films, later opting to quit for fear of being prosecuted and also because actors at that time made very little money appearing in hardcore porn. However, when I was bouncing down the street in Marina Del Rey California and Dick J. According to her Web site, "I've always been a nudist at heart, which is surprising since I'm from the conservative midwest. Subsequently, she began tearoom modeling in the San Fernando Valley. She was widowed and a single parent, raising a son on Social Security benefits. Candy admitted it was very, very late when she started having sex and that she was 28 before she discovered oral sex.Ĭandy was believed to have come from Kansas City to Los Angeles in 1964. Her upbringing was rather harsh her mother had been abused, and she did not want a repeat of that for her daughter. Her measurements were reported to be 48 DD-24-36.Ĭandy may have been illegitimate. Despite her pleasantly large breasts, she had a relatively lean body overall. Much of her work tended toward softcore, though she wasn't shy about taking on the hardcore genre. In her own words, " met a car salesman who I fell madly in love with and he took me for a long ride.And I ended up penniless." She appeared in numerous films and magazines during her heyday. But if there was truth to the rumor, she certainly wasn't prepared for what came next. She gave some credence to the rumor when, in a purported 1978 interview in the publication, Candy & Uschi Digard (publisher: American Art Enterprises, Inc.), she said she had inherited "a fair amount of money" prior to entering hardcore. With regard to the last alias, there was an unsubstantiated rumor that she was an heiress to the Mosler Safe Co. She was often credited as Mary Gavin, though early in her career she sometimes used the names Vivian Andresen and Candy Mosler. In those same years she took part in some "sexy wrestling" short-footage films too, mainly for Triumph Studios and Ron Dvorkin's Bellstone.Ĭandy Samples with Uschi Digard in Candy & Uschi Digard, 1978 She also appeared in the Russ Meyer satirical sexploitation film Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). In addition to appearing in pornographic movies, she also appeared in some B-movie campy roles, including the 1974 science fiction spoof Flesh Gordon. In the 1970s and 80s, she was indisputably formidable competition for such female hardcore porn luminaries as Marilyn Chambers, Seka, and Kay Parker. Candy skyrocketed to fame and success most prominently in the 1970s via consistently regular appearances in men's soft-core publications Juggs, Gent, and Fling magazines, among others. Over the years Samples performed as an exotic dancer. During the course of the 1960s she appeared in numerous black and white magazines in "cheesecake" poses. 6 Big tit movies / pictures of Candy SamplesĪccording to her website, Samples was approached while in Marina Del Rey, California to do pin-up modeling.