Over the years Martin has performed his special musical talent on daytime and nighttime shows, as well as a recent ...

A member of that endangered species known as “The Everyman,” Candy's life sometimes read like unsubtle literature.

In Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Steve Martin got so scared that he saw the devil. The movie studio, meanwhile, was more terrified of the film’s production schedule and budget. The film, featuring ...

Gear up for the year’s greatest feast and most difficult travel season with the 1987 classic “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” starring Steve Martin and John Candy. The film, directed by John Hughes, ...

Martin interjects and sets the record straight. “Well, there were names being tossed around ... I don’t remember all the permutations of cast, but we always wanted Chevy, and we wanted John Candy.

Candy starred alongside Steve Martin in the John Hughes flick, which has become a Thanksgiving must-watch for many households ...

This is FRESH AIR. John Candy, the comic actor who rose to fame in the sketch comedy series "SCTV" and such films as "Stripes," "Splash" and "Spaceballs," died at age 43 in 1994. Now, 31 years later, ...

Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being.