Candy Clark: The Girl Who Fell to Hollywood

When Fort Worth-raised Candy Clark landed in Hollywood, she brought a Polaroid SX-70 camera along with her. And through the course of a brilliant career that began with a supporting part in John Huston’s Fat City and included roles in George Lucas’s American Graffiti (as the rebellious Debbie Dunham) and Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (as Mary-Lou, the small-town Oklahoman who introduces extraterrestrial David Bowie to sex), Clark was forever snapping memento portraits. Now, the fruits of this shutterbug compulsion have been collected in a new book, Tight Heads (All Night Menu), which brings together striking never-before-published images of an array of personalities, making up a veritable who’s who of 1970s American cinema. To mark its publication, Clark will visit Metrograph to sign copies of Tight Heads between screenings of films containing her best-loved performances of the much-mythologized New Hollywood era.