(photo credit: Arthur Cohen)

Long before there was a marketplace of women making dirty movies for women, there was Candida Royalle. Just about 25 years ago, Royalle moved from in front of the camera to behind the lens and began creating porn she was interested in watching with her studio, Femme Productions. Considered a rock star by lady porn lovers (including us HM4Her gals), Candida was one of the first to start releasing movies made from a woman’s voice and created with women viewers in mind. Without her vision and perseverance, ‘for women, by women’ porn might never have taken off like it has, and we might not even exist. So thanks, Candida!

And because Candida was a pioneer of the field and fought on the forefront of female porn, the woman has a lot of wonderful memories and stories! So to let us take a glimpse of the past and experience all Candida has to say, we’ve broken her interview into four parts, complete with some of her personal pictures from other the years!

Look for the four parts of Candida’s interview, posting on Monday’s and be sure to check out part one!

6. What did you do today?
I got on a plane and flew home from LA to NY. I’ve been in LA for the Adult Novelty Expo with my Natural Contours line of Intimate Massagers for the last week, and now I’m returning home. Isn’t it great that I can do this interview from thousands of feet up in the air??? Gotta’ love the lap top!

7. What would you rather have done today?
Well, relatively speaking, this is just what I would like to have done: come home! I love my home! But when we were taxiing out on to the runway I spotted a jet plane from an airline from Tahiti and wistfully saw myself on a balmy white sandy beach with palm trees and calm turquoise water. Sigh. It’s been too long…

8. If you could do a movie with anyone (living or brought back from the dead) who would it be?
Hmmm….not a big celebrity watcher. Just give me some leading ladies and men who are alluring in a natural way, can act, and are able to project a raw sexuality and eroticism while staying in character.

9. Who is your favorite adult performer?
I don’t have one, but I’ve had several I very much liked directing over the years. Missy was a rare gem, an ethereal beauty who was remarkable on screen. She probably gave too much of herself and in the end was far too fragile to survive a culture that judges women like her while consuming them for their own pleasure.

Nina Hartley is a wonderful professional woman who gives her all to her work, and loves her work! She was in several of my movies and won some awards for her work for me. Alexandra Silk also gives so much of herself and worked very hard for me in “Stud Hunters.” She received a nomination for best actress for her leading role in “Stud Hunters” from AVN that year. Ava Vincent, her co-star, was also an ethereal beauty whom I couldn’t wait to feature in one of my movies.

 Shanna McCullough, who was in several movies for me including her starring role in “The Gift,” was a very talented actress and very professional as well. I’m sure I’m forgetting some, especially from my early movies…like Chelsea Blake who embodied the confident ‘older’ woman who was so comfortable in her skin and with what she was doing; and Carol Cross who came alive on screen with such a pure, natural beauty. Lauren and I always thought she had a real milk-maid quality, and loved how her chest and butt cheeks would turn rosy red during the erotic scenes. She starred in “Christine’s Secret” for us, which won several awards. As for the men, Mark Davis was always one of my favorites. He was so handsome and while some criticized his acting skills I managed to get good performances out of him.

Micky G was very sexy and had a great screen presence, and Tom Byron let me cast him in some of the silliest roles and pulled them off brilliantly, like in “One Size Fits All” and “Eyes of Desire, part 2” where he cross dressed for the role! I found Alex Sanders very hot with his long golden locks and buff body and he always really delivered for me.

10. You’ve got 20 bucks left to your name; what would you do with it?
Oh wow, what can you even do with $20 now??? Pay for a cab to the nearest person you know who you trust will lend you more? LOTS more!

To be continued…

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