Candy Darling was an American actress, best known as a Warhol superstar and transgender icon. The initials on the headstone refer to her birth name. She was born and raised in New York City, where she adopted a style reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour queens. She chose the first name Candy out of a love for sweets and the surname Darling from a friend who called her that so often that it stuck. In 1967, she met Andy Warhol at an after-hours club called The Tenth of Always. Warhol knew almost immediately that she represented Hollywood fantasy, something most of the stars of the 1960s didn't want to portray anymore, and cast her in his movies "Flesh" (1968) and "Women in Revolt" (1971). Tennessee Williams, (who later became one of Candy's closest friends) cast her in the off-Broadway premiere of his play "Small Craft Warnings." She had the lead role of Nona Noonan in the Jackie Curtis play, "Glamour, Glory and Gold" with co-star Robert De Niro. She acted in two other Jackie Curtis plays, "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit" in 1969 and "Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned" in 1971. She had small parts in "Klute" with Jane Fonda and "Mortadella" with Sophia Loren. In 1971 she went to Vienna to do two films for director Werner Shroeter, "The Death of Maria Malibran," and another that was never released. The eulogy at her funeral was read by Julie Newmar, who said of her, "Well, Candy just worshipped and adored me and was so kind and marvelous that it was just a natural thing to have done. Candy was a genius... Hers was an extraordinarily high achievement... Her skin was so flawless, her behavior not limpid but liquid, the movement of her hands exquisite." She has been immortalized in Lou Reed's songs "Candy Says" and "Walk on the Wild Side," and in 1996 she was portrayed in the film "I Shot Andy Warhol" by actor Stephen Dorff. Though her family destroyed many of her papers after her death, two books of her writings were published posthumously: her diaries under the title "Candy Darling" in 1992 and then "My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar" in 1997.