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X-rated star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56

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X-rated star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56

By JOHN ROGERS – 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit 1972 movie "Behind the Green Door," has died at 56.

The cause of death was not immediately known. A family friend, Peggy McGinn, said Chambers' 17-year-old daughter found the actress' body Sunday night at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. Chambers was pronounced dead at the scene, the county coroner's office said Monday.

Chambers and fellow actresses Linda Lovelace and Georgina Spelvin shot to fame at a time in the early 1970s when both American social mores and the quality of hard-core sex films were changing.

For the first time, films like "Behind the Green Door" and "Deep Throat" (also released in 1972 and starring Lovelace) had decent acting and legitimate if fairly thin plots. As the audiences for them grew to include couples, they also began to take on higher production values and to be seen in places other than sleazy theaters.

But "Behind the Green Door" brought something more in Chambers, an attractive young woman who had begun her career as a legitimate actress and model.

While the film was still in theaters, the public learned that its star was the same young blonde smiling and holding a freshly diapered baby on boxes of Ivory Snow laundry soap (which the company touted as "99 and 44/100 percent pure"). The manufacturer quickly replaced her, but it was later discovered that she also had a small role in the 1970 Barbra Streisand film "The Owl and the *****cat."

"She was the first crossover adult star. She was the Ivory Snow girl and when she decided to make an adult movie that was big news," Steven Hirsch, co-CEO of adult filmmaker Vivid Entertainment Group, told The Associated Press on Monday.

"It was the first adult movie that was more than just a bunch of sex scenes," Hirsch said of her breakthrough film. "She was an actress and she brought that ability to the set of 'Behind the Green Door.' That's part of what made that movie so successful."

The Associated Press: X-rated star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56

She was very pretty.

Never saw that film, though.

She had a daughter.

Now she's gone. Too bad.
 
WTF??? :shock: :confused:
 
Wow, never realized what she looked like from the neck up.

They are still not releasing what happened.
 
Wow, never realized what she looked like from the neck up.

They are still not releasing what happened.
I think she had a mouth.
 
Doesn't seem breaking news worthy to me. But since I'm not a porno lovin' penis having man I'll assume I just have no sense on the topic. :mrgreen:
 
Not to worry T. Once ya get the ol' lizard stuck in the zipper, you regret having the damn thing anyways. It really does get us into a lot of trouble ya know. :3oops:

Besides. With what you got, you could have all the penis's you wanted anyways and not even have to worry about zippers. :rofl

Oh! Oh! Oh! Your post reminds me! :shock:

It's that time again for my favorite YouTube video!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA"]YouTube - The Internet is for Porn - Sesame Street Style![/ame]

So, grab your dicks and double click for porn, porn, porn. :rofl
 
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I still love the fact that she was the original Ivory Snow Baby :lamo

RIP Behind The Green Door
 
Didn't she used to host a regular show on Showtime or HBO? I remember her.

I hope she didn't suffer. RIP
 
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Most of the gay porn stars I grew up with in the 80's are long gone. Poor Leo and Lance both died way back in 1991. One from AIDS, the other in a motorcycle crash.

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RIP all our old favorites.

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Think I'm about to hurl.... :shock:


:rofl
 
Celebrating the "pre-condom" classics seems oddly akin to celebrating a "pre-integration" or "pre-woman's rights" movie.
 
Porn stars tend to suffer one of two fates - Either to die before their time, or to become Louisiana politicians. :mrgreen:
 
Porn stars tend to suffer one of two fates - Either to die before their time, or to become Louisiana politicians. :mrgreen:

Oh? There have been Louisiana politicians who have been porn stars or are you just full of it?
 
Oh? There have been Louisiana politicians who have been porn stars or are you just full of it?

Are you just flapping your gums, or are you just full of it? :mrgreen: One of them is running against Diaper Dave Vitter in 2010.
 
Are you just flapping your gums, or are you just full of it? :mrgreen: One of them is running against Diaper Dave Vitter in 2010.

Yeah right. She'll get less than 1 percent of the vote. I's Dr. John's little joke.

Louisiana is doing better than most states right now. Vitter will be reelected easily.
 
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