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Photo The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer featured in the 1994 best seller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and in the film version, died on Thursday in Savannah, Ga. She was 59 and had been performing until about a month ago.
The cause was pneumonia, said Cale Hall, a longtime friend and a co-owner of Club One, w Ms. Chablis performed for three decades.
Ms. Chablis was a standout character in the book, in which the author, John Berendt, introduced the world to Savannah and the sometimes eccentric people who live t.
“She was The Lady Chablis from morning to night,” Mr. Berendt said in an interview on Thursday.
After the book came out, Ms. Chablis appeared on “Good Morning America” and “Oprah.” Readers from around the country went to see her at Club One.
She published an autobiography, “Hiding My Candy,” in 1996 and the next year played herself in Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation of the Berendt book.
Survivors include two sisters, Lois Stevens and Cynthia Ponder; and two brothers, Charles Whiteside and John Fairley Jr.Ms. Chablis performed about once a month and never changed her risqué style.