According to her Web site, Samples was approached while in Marina Del Rey, California to do pin-up modeling. During the course of the 1960s, she appeared in numerous black and white magazines in "cheesecake" poses. Over the years, Samples performed as an exotic dancer. She appeared in numerous men's soft-core publications, including Juggs and Gent. In addition to appearing in pornographic movies, she also appeared in some B-movie campy roles, including the leader of the Amazonian lesbians in the 1974 science fiction spoof Flesh Gordon. She also appeared in the action spoof Superchick (1973), the Russ Meyer sexploitation films Up! (1976) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979), and the Australian softcore film Fantasm Comes Again (1977). She was often billed as Mary Gavin. In 1979, she performed with John Holmes, Johnny Keyes, Serena, Uschi Digard, Kitten Natividad, and Kelly Stewart in the pornographic film John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens from Zane Entertainment Group. In those same years, she also took part in some "sexy wrestling" short-footage films, too, mainly for Triumph Studios and Ron Dvorkin's Bellstone.

Фільмографія

• 2024Retro Girls Get Wet — (archive footage)
• 2018I Remember Uschi Digard
• 2012Wonderful Mammarys
• 201025 Porn Star Legends 1 — (archive footage)
• 2010Only the Best of Breasts — (archive footage)
• 2010Throbbin Holes
• 2009Big Bust Loops Volume 1
• 2006The Golden Age Of Porn: Candy Samples
• 2006The Golden Age Of Porn: Candy Samples 2
• 2006The Golden Age of Porn: Giant Juggs — (archive footage)
• 2002Boogie Down with John Holmes 2 — (archive footage)
• 1998Bucky Beaver's Triple XXX Rated Stags, Loops, & Peeps!: Volume 43: Solo Gals! — (archive footage)
• 1997Boogie Down with John Holmes
• 1989Cock Robin
• 1989Unleashed Lust
• 1988Electric Blue 27
• 1988The Bigger The Better
• 1988The Bigger The Better 2
• 198740 Plus
• 1987Big Bust Babes 3
• 1987Legends of Porn — (archive footage)
• 198640 Plus — Mistress / Woman with fruit
• 1986Bouncin' in the U.S.A.
• 1985A Taste of Candy — Widow
• 1985Down and Dirty
• 1985Electric Blue 19
• 1985Inside Candy Samples — Dr. Candy Cox
• 1985More than a Handful — (archive footage)
• 1984All the Way In! — Candy Keen
• 1984Best Chest in the West — Candy
• 1984Candy Samples Triple Feature 5
• 1984Electric Blue 15 — Katrina (segment "Bobby's Boobies")
• 1984The Best Little Whorehouse in San Francisco — Fanny Mae
• 1979Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens — The Very Big Blonde (as Mary Gavin)
• 1979Hey! There's Naked Bodies on My TV!
• 1977Fantasm Comes Again — Frances
• 1976Deep Jaws — Henrietta
• 1976Fantasm — Belle
• 1976Female Chauvinists — Busty Recruit
• 1976The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza — Pepper-Picking Girl
• 1976Up! — The Headsperson (as Mary Gavin)
• 1975A Touch of Sex — Audience Member (uncredited)
• 1974Flesh Gordon — Chief Nellie
• 1974The Best of Everything — Alice
• 1973Bust Out — Mrs. Brown
• 1973Million Dollar Mona — Mona von Groana
• 1973Sex in the Bag — Mrs. Pickford (uncredited)
• 1973Superchick — Lady on Boat
• 1973The Cocktail Hostesses — Woman at Orgy
• 1972Breast Orgy
• 1972Breast Orgy 2
• 1972Candy's Cat House — Candy (uncredited)
• 1972Drop Out Wife — Busty Swinger (uncredited)
• 1972Is There Sex After Marriage — Martha Carson
• 1972Liberty — Cynthia Joy
• 1972Love Boccaccio Style — Madame Fantutti
• 1972Prison Girls — Susie (as Ilona Lakes)
• 1972The Elevator — Peter's Friend's Lover (uncredited)
• 1971Ensenada Pickup — Mrs. Fisher
• 1971Mother Knows Best — Flame Fletcher
• 1971Mrs. Harris' Cavity — Mrs. Harris (uncredited)
• 1971Sex as You Like It — Marlene
• 1971The Erotic Director — Go-Go Dancer
• 1971Too Much Loving — Harry's Wife

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (5)

• 2004Pandora Peaks — Herself
• 1985Electric Blue 17 — Self
• 1982Electric Blue 008 — Herself (segment "EB Reports")
• 1979John Holmes and the All Star Sex Queens — Self (archive footage)
• Candy's Big Tit Wrestling — herself