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As 16-year old Juanita Dale Slusher, the future burlesque dancer Candy Barr, starred in the famous stag film "Smart Alec."

She was the first porn star.

Juanita Slusher first experienced sex when 18-year old neighbor Ernest came over and performed oral sex on her.

Barr told the 6/76 Oui magazine: "I was only five years old when a man first used me sexually. I wasn't penetrated. It was just oral sex. He was a neighbor - about 19 or 20 - but to me, he was a big man. He would come over to the house, and we would play hide-and-seek. He'd always hide with me, and he would pull my panties down and use his mouth on my little bitty thing."

Oui: "Were you frightened?"

Barr: "Not really. Children have pleasurable sensations at an early age. I remember I was afraid to tell my family about it, because I wasn't sure whether it was right or wrong. By the grace of God I wasn't raped, but things like that happened to me time and time again.

"When I was seven, a 42-year-old man used to babysit with me in th daytime, while my mother worked in a laundry. The first time she left, he made his move. He told me that my mother wanted him to check me for chiggers, which aren't uncommon in Texas. Anyway, it evolved to the point where he made oral love to me. And he used to buy me things I couldn't have had otherwise: chewing gum and little surprises."

At age 14, she took a job as a cocktail waitress and was busted by the old Liquor Control Board.

She ran away to Dallas. Writes the September, 1976 Texas Monthly:

"The only place a teenage runaway could count on steady work in Dallas was at the Trolley Courts, or the other hot-pillow motels located out Harry Hines Boulevard, or along the old Fort Worth Highway. Pimps, thugs, and night clerks traded around young girls as they pleased. Candy's arrangement with the motel consisted of making beds by day and turning tricks at night... An old crook named Shorty Anderson decided she had too much class for the Trolley Courts, so he claimed her as his own and took her to live in his trailer under a bridge where he ran a school for young burglars. Candy's first husband, Billy Debbs, was a graduate of Shorty's academy. Billy was a good lover but a poor student. He went to the pen, got out, then got shot to death. Somewhere in there - she can't fix the exact time - a pimp spotted her jitterbugging in a joint called the Round-Up Club and launched Candy's movie career. She must have been about fifteen when Smart Aleck was filmed. The thousands (perhaps millions) who have seen this American classic will recall that she was a brunette then. Smart Aleck was America's first blue movie, the Deep Throat of its era, only infinitely more erotic and less pretentious. It was just straight old motel room sex; the audience supplied its own sounds."

Barr says: "It didn't turn me on. They may have drugged me, or maybe I blocked it out of my mind. I suppose they took me to a moetel... I had been forced into screwing so many times I wasn't really aware that this was different. I don't think they even paid me. I've read that that movie made me Candy Barr. That movie made it because I became Candy Barr." (9/76 Texas Monthly)

One auto dealer told the Texas Monthly that Candy Barr was the star attraction of a Junior Chamber of Commerce stag. "She went for two hundred, three hundred, even five hundred bucks. There was a banker who paid five hundred every time he put a hand on Candy."

Barr told the 6/76 Oui magazine: "I used to go dancing at this place calle dthe Round-Up Club. I just got out there and jitterbugged. A lot of the people who hung around the Round-Up Club were pimps and whores and dope pushers... I was going with the leader of the band and my home entertainment was always top drawer, too. Anyway, one of the guys who did the film used to come and dance, and I must have danced with him.

"I've had a lot of flak about it [Smart Aleck]. People say, 'What the hell, it's only a f--- movie.' Well, that was 1951; I do care what the hell. If I had done it by choice, then I would hve had some mechanism to adjust it into my lifestyle. But I didn't do it by choice, and the law has harassed me because of it."

Oui: "In the film, one of the men tries to make you go down on him, and you struggle very realistically; then there's a cut, and you come back in with another woman who does go down on the man while you sit in a chair and watch. Was that real, or were you acting?"

Barr: "I suppose it was real, because I have never been an actress. At the time, I wasn't even aware that people engaged in oral sex - despite my experience of it as a seven-year-old. It wasn't something that I planned to make part of my life. When I got married, it didn't come up. If they had hung me up and thrown darts at me, I wouldn't have done it. It was just a mater of principle."

Oui: "What happened after you made your one and only porn film?"

Barr: "I ran around a lot. I had been working in a motel called Trolley Courts in Dallas. It was called that because it was made out of trolley cars. My room was free because I was the maid. I cleaned during the day and hopped cars at a drive-in at night. That's where I met Shorty, who was the best box man in town."

Oui: "Box man?"

Barr: "Meaning he was good at opening safes. He introduced me to Billy, whom I later married. Billy had just gotten out of jail... They would send me into stores to see what kinds of safes they had.

"Billy was sent to the penitentiary. Eventually we got divorced, and he was shot to death. Then I married Troy Phillips. It was about that time that I started dancing for a living.

"I went to work at the Theater Lounge in Dallas as a cigarette girl. I was only about 17 or 18, but I looked of age. Eventually the boss asked me if I wouldn't rather dance. Taking off my clothes was no big inconvenience. I enjoyed being scantily clad - and they offered me $85 a week... I packed the house [Abe Weinstein's Colony Club] and that's where I got the name Candy Barr. I was billed as CANDY BARR - STRIPTEASE ARTIST. I didn't wear a G string. I wore net panties. And pasties. You could not be totally bare breasted then."

Candy moved to Los Angeles and became the mistress of mobster Michey Cohen.

In 1959 Barr was busted for marijuana possession and sentenced to 15 years in prison. She served over two years, found God, and was released in 1963.

Texas Monthly writes: "Those were the days of the old How Dare You Squad in Dallas: intent was sufficient cause for arrest and confinement. Candy knew that a lot better than I did... All those women's clubs and all those wives of all those fine men who paid $500 to get their hands on Candy Barr were actively applying pressure to the powers that were, most particularly to the Dallas Police Department's special service bureau and its hard-line director Captain Pat Gannaway, scourge of the drug peddler and sex merchant and guardian of community sensibility."

Candy knew Jack Ruby who shot and killed Robert Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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