BY EMIL TIEDEMANN
Marilyn Chambers, one of the most well-known porn stars of the '70s, was found dead last Sunday (April 12) in her Santa Clarita, California mobile home, discovered by her 17-year-old daughter McKenna Taylor. Foul play has been ruled out.The former exotic dancer was born Marilyn Ann Briggs in Providence, Rhode Island, and gained her first taste of fame modeling on a box of Ivory Snow soap, holding an infant that was once rumoured to be Brooke Sheilds. By 1970 she landed a bit part in Barbra Streisand's film The Owl and the Pussycat, billed as "Evelyn Lang."
In 1972 Chambers' career had peaked with her memorable starring role as "the all-American girl" in the Mitchell brothers' adult film Behind the Green Door, which is credited as the first hardcore porn to be widely released in the U.S. In the film Chambers has sex with African-American actor Johnny Keyes, at a time when interracial sex scenes were taboo.
Chambers appeared in more than 30 films during her lengthy career, including Together (1971), David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977), Insatiable (1980), My Therapist (1984), and her final picture, last year's Solitaire. She also penned an autobiography in 1975 (Marilyn Chambers: My Story), scored a disco-pop hit in 1976 ("Benihana"), and even ran for vice presidency in 2004, as a member of the Personal Choice Party.
Known for her versatility and trend-setting approaches (she was one of the first porn stars to shave her pubic hair or to bare a genital piercing!), Chambers earned a Lifetime Achievement FOXE Award in 2005. Five years earlier, in 2000, Tracy Hudson portrayed Chambers in Emilio Estevez's Rated X film, based on the Mitchell brothers.
Chambers leaves behind one daughter.
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