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LOS ANGELES — Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow laundry detergent girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit...
Paradoxically Pure: The Life of Marilyn Chambers. Brought up in a proper Connecticut middle class home, she scandalized her family by doing hard-core sex films. Yet Chambers wanted everyone to know that what she did was acting.
By the time that packaging hit grocery shelves, Chambers had accidentally leapt into the career that forever defined her: porn star. She thought no one would see Behind the Green Door; instead, it rode the Deep Throat wave into a cultural behemoth of “porn chic,” making the actress an instant icon.
With Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress, 2024), Jared Stearns has assembled the important and long-overdue account of Chambers’ life story, depicting a complex and hard working entertainer who navigated a new type of celebrity all while striving to find her true self. She was the embodiment of the free-spirited ...
Marilyn Chambers was an American actress, dancer, and model with a net worth of $400,000. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island in April 1952 and passed away in April 2009. Chambers became famous for her first movie in 1972 called Behind the Green Door and another film Insatiable from 1980.
Behind the Green Door (1972) was the first hard-core pornographic movie widely distributed in the United States. Created by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell in San Francisco and starring Marilyn Chambers (pictured here in 1973), it grossed more than $25 million and led to numerous obscenity prosecutions, particularly in the South.
The untold story of the world’s most famous X-rated star, who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door but struggled to find her true self in a world of sex, scandal, and shattered dreams.
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