![]() It was all pink and gold and beautiful because it was dawn, and I thought, I’m never going back to Texas again.” Everything changed after a New York vacation: “I looked out of the airplane window and saw New York City. I went to the Academy Awards with Jeff Bridges, who was my boyfriend at the time … It was great.”īorn in Oklahoma, Clark grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and went to a technical high school, where her aspiration was to become a secretary/receptionist. ![]() “I’m grateful because it’s every actor’s dream to have a movie or two that’s a classic. Despite more than 50 film and TV credits, Candy Clark doesn’t mind that fans often ask her about only one: her signature role of “Debbie Dunham,” the somewhat ditzy, bouffant-haired blonde who purred, “I just love it when guys peel out,” in George Lucas’ semi-autobiographical coming-of-age hit, American Graffiti (1973).Įarning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in what was only her second film, Clark notes that American Graffiti is among the American Film Institute’s “100 greatest American movies of all time.”
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