When
Candice Daly was found dead in a
rundown apartment on December 14th,
2004 the cause of death was
listed as unknown. There were
allegations of drugs. The Globe
promptly claimed that Candice had
been sacked from her role as
vengeance seeking psychotic
Veronica Landers on TVs
The Young and the
Restless (which
she played from 1997-98) because
of drug problems and ensuing
work difficulty. She
was written off the show by
having her character impaled on a
pitchfork! Ouch! A scream queen
always leaves in style.
Candice was born on
January 4th 1963
she was 41 at the time of
her death rather than the
often-reported 38. In that time
she had done a lot of living. She
grew up fatherless in North
Hollywood with her mother Eileen
who was prone to drinking. Given
the place and her daughters
captivating beauty, mom pushed
Candice into a career in acting
and modeling. After studying with
acting coaches for several years
she began getting cast on
television in the early 80s
most notably in Mike
Hammer and Hotel.
Then came
several low budget and direct to
video films. She starred in
Zombie 4: After
Death (1988)
alongside gay XXX icon Jeff
Stryker (!!) in his first
straight film role.
This Shriek Show release is about
a voodoo curse on a remote island
which throws open the gates of
hell releasing the undead to
devour the living. Next she
played the lead, Eve Black, in
the deliciously lurid sci-fi
thriller-chiller Liquid
Dreams in 1991. In
her finest screen role Daly, as
Eve, comes to the city from
Kansas to visit her sister, who
is promptly found dead in her
apartment. Determined to get to
the bottom of the murder she goes
undercover in the lurid
taxi dancer world her
sister inhabited. Also starring
in Liquid Dreams
were John Doe, Mark S. Manos,
Tracey Walter, and Mink Stole.
After that she played duel roles
as Wendy and Teresa Lazzare in
Where Truth Lies
(1996) costarring John Savage,
Kim Cattrall, Malcolm McDowell,
and Sam Flash
Gordon Jones. In
that film Ms. Daly is raped on a
car hood as well as in an
apartment, is in a fiery car
crash, and has her neck snapped!
Her final film role was in the
1999 movie Dead Women in
Lingerie with Jerry Orbach,
Maura Tierney, and Lyle Waggoner
about (you guessed it!) a
psychopath killing off gorgeous
models.
Although
drugs were indeed found in the
actress system, Dalys
longtime boyfriend at the time of
her death claims that LA cops
bungled the investigation. He
alleges it was actually a case of
Candice dying at the hands of an
obsessed fan who befriended and
drugged the star (using the date
rape drug GHB) before
taking her to the rundown
apartment and killing her. In
either scenario its another
sad ending to a Hollywood story. |