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Actor Born: June 20, 1947 in Norman, OK Biography:Model-turned-actress "Candy Clark" first came to filmgoers' attention with a secondary role in "John Huston"'s "Fat City". Then "Clark" really went to town as gum-chewing, dumb-like-a-fox Debbie Dunham in "American Graffiti" (1974); for her portrayal of the girl who reminds "Charles Martin Smith" of "Connie Stevens" (well, it sounded like a good pick-up line, anyway), she was nominated for an Academy Award. Equally worthwhile roles followed in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976), which included the scene wherein a sympathetic "Clark" lifted and carried ailing alien "David Bowie", and the 1978 remake of "The Big Sleep", which featured the actress as the deviant, thumb-sucking Carmilla Sternwood. Then, inexplicably, the actress endured a cinematic dry spell, though she was seen (and her Oklahoma accent heard) to good advantage in the made-for-TV movies "Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and... Full Biography
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