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The green door is closed
SAD SAD SAD...
Adult film star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56 One-time Ivory Snow model became famous for ‘Behind the Green Door’ Hulton Archive / Getty Images Before earning fame as an adult film star, Marilyn Chambers posed as a wholesome young mother for a box of Ivory Snow laundry detergent, circa 1974. The actress was found dead at her home on April 12 at age 56 updated 47 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow soap 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. 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 Soap. 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 Pussycat.” “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.” Paid to ‘live out my greatest fantasies’ In an online chat with AdultDVDtalk.com in 2000, Chambers attempted to explain what caused her to take such a radically different career path after “The Owl and the Pussycat” and her modeling work. “Back then in my naive brain I was thinking that something like ’Behind the Green Door’ had never been done before and the way our sexual revolution was traveling I really thought it was going to be a stepping stone which would further my acting career,” she said. She learned afterward, she said, that wasn’t the case. Fred Prouser / Reuters file "There will always be a stigma on people who do adult films," said Chambers, seen here in 2000. "It's unfortunate that that's the way society has made it." “There will always be a stigma on people who do adult films,” she said. “It’s unfortunate that that’s the way society has made it.” She followed “Green Door” with the hard-core films “Resurrection of Eve,” in 1973 and “Inside Marilyn Chambers” in 1975. Then she announced in 1976 that she was giving up adult films to pursue other interests. She starred in the 1977 horror movie “Rabid” and to put together a song-and-dance show that played Las Vegas and elsewhere. She returned to adult films in 1980 in “Insatiable” and through the rest of her career went back and forth between explicit movies and R-rated ones. “She was a pioneer, and an amazingly secure woman. I admired her for being at the forefront of an industry that was so taboo when she started,” said Jenna Jameson, currently one of the industry’s biggest stars. Hirsch noted that one of the most striking things about Chambers’ career was its longevity in a business where stars quickly fade. She still has a photo gallery on the Web site Adult Video News and the Internet Movie Database credits her as recently completing a film called, “Porndogs: The Adventures of Sadie” with Ron Jeremy. Although Chambers was quick to point out in 2000 that she had done more R-rated films that X-rated ones, she made no apologies for the latter. “I have to say that the adult films have been a total pleasure,” she said. “They were like getting paid to live out my greatest fantasies. The rest of the stuff ... sometimes got to be a real grind.” Chambers, born Marilyn Ann Briggs, on April 22, 1952, grew up in Westport, Conn. She got her start in adult films after answering an ad placed in a San Francisco newspaper by pioneering adult filmmakers Jim and Artie Mitchell. Married and divorced three times, she is survived by her daughter, McKenna Marie Taylor; her brother, Bill Briggs; and her sister, Jann Smith. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
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The weekend we moved into our house, a neighbor was having a garage sale 3 doors down...the people moving out were local pornographers, Tom and Suzie Wohl(Wahl?). One item a neighbor told me about was an futon they were selling that Marilyn Chambers allegedly slept on...reportedly they got $3 for it.
Keep in mind, this is a conservative, midwestern, middle class subdivision full of stuffy older folks, I can't imagine how they fit in.
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Because the typical porn patron is conservative, Midwestern, middle class stuffy folks.
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They may like porn, doesn't mean they want the actual film-makers living next door...NIMBY syndrome.
The thing I found interesting about the whole situation is this: this couple felt squeezed out by corporate porn conglomerates. In the past, there was apparently a large independent distribution network, but due to consolidation it was becoming harder to get a flim distributed. So, even in skin flicks, market consolidation killed off the little guy. This couple had gotten to the point that they were doing live demonstrations in hotel rooms, that they described as educational seminars, for groups of people. The prosecutor's office decided it was prostitution, and busted them. They have since moved out of town, and retired from their movie making and educational endeavors.
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I think it's the opposite. You can blend in and dissappear if you simply keep to yourself.
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I thought this was about some new eco friendly door.....
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Law school examination question I was once given:
"Adult" = Dirty.
Discuss.
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Beat me to it!
Where is Aklim? Sitting Shiva? I figured he would be all over this (to coin a phrase)
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