marilyn chambers

Adult film career

Marilyn was the first woman in the pornographic film industry to actually make any real money and achieve any appreciable degree of power. She is rightfully regarded as the precursor to and role model for such modern female thespian power figures as Jenna Jameson.

Marilyn first came to the public's attention at age seventeen as the cover girl on the Ivory Snow® soap box, where she posed holding the baby. (According to some urban legends, she was the baby; this turned out to be false, as was the claim that the baby was Brooke Shields.) The product's manufacturer, Procter & Gamble quickly dropped her after it discovered her double life as an adult film actress. For Behind the Green Door, Marilyn asked the Mitchell Brothers, Artie and Jim, for a percentage of the gross, never expecting that they would agree. After filming concluded, she dropped the Ivory Snow bomb shell, which resulted in her being billed, the "99 and 44/100 pure" girl.

In Behind the Green Door, Marilyn engaged in explicit interracial sex with the very well-endowed African-american actor, Johnny Keyes. The industry and viewing public was shocked; a white woman having sex with a black man was then still very new, highly taboo, and otherwise extraordinarily controversial. In later movies with John Holmes, noted for his extremely large penis, Chambers "talk[ed] dirty" to him off-camera to produced the desired effect: fully excited arousal. Being athletic, she wanted Holmes to penetrate her anally, also for shock effect. Holmes, before he dived head-first into dope and developed a nasty addiction, gave one of his better performances: for the first time, he was able to insert the full girth and length of his member all the way into a woman. (Eventually, mainstream films noticed Marilyn, and in 1977, she got a part in David Cronenberg's Rabid.)

She was noted for her performance enthusiasm, time and again seemingly eager if not demanding to accomplish deep throat, anal, lesbian, interracial, extreme bukkake, and double or triple penetration scenes. She was one of the first female stars to shave her pubic area, a practice now routinely fait accompli in preparation for a porn film. Marilyn continues to appear in porn films for such companies as Naughty America and MILF Hunter, happily cashing in on the lucrative MILF market. Later in her career, Marilyn had a series of breast enhancements taking her from a B-cup to at least a D-. She was also one of the first porn actresses to have her genitals pierced; she was photographed with a one-inch gold ring in her right inner labia.

Marilyn was married for a time (1975-1985) to porn producer/director, Chuck Traynor and gave birth to a daughter. It was during this marriage that she acquired an interest in motorcycle riding. Traynor's reputation for handing out both physical and verbal abuse took a brutally tough toll on his first wife, Linda Lovelace, which she understandly could not face up to for very long. But in Marilyn's case, the result was far different. She did not break down in the face of Traynor's abuse. She never lost her innate self-confidence; she asserted herself, took charge of her career, and divorced the batterer in 1985.

Some years ago while fueling her just-ridden chopper, Marilyn severely burned her legs on the engine and muffler. Thereafter, few of her movies would expose her legs or feet. Instead, they focused on her uninjured assets: her genitalia, buttocks, breasts, and oral sex skills. Another asset, her indefatigable and optimistic sense of humor, continues to serve her well through a lengthy, sometimes rocky, and never dull, star-studded career.

Partial Filmography

• When Rated X Ruled the World (2004) (TV)
• The Naked Feminist (2004)
• Sex and the Girl Next Door (2004)
• "The E! True Hollywood Story" - Blood Brothers: Jim & Artie Mitchell (2003) (TV)
• Fluffy Cumsalot, Porn Star (2003)
• Naked Fairy Tales (2002) (TV) aka Marilyn Chambers' Naked Fairy Tales (USA: complete title)
• Bad Girl (2001) (TV)
• Little Shop of Erotica (2001) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Little Shop of Erotica
• Edge Play (2001)
• Give Me Your Soul (2000)
• Older Women, Hotter Sex (2000)
• Dark Chambers (2000)
• "The Directors" - The Films of David Cronenberg (1999) (TV)
• The Top 25 Adult Stars of All Time (1999)
• Sextrospective (1999)
• Still Insatiable (1999) - aka Marilyn Chambers Is Still Insatiable (UK) →
• Desire (1997) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Desire
• "Women of the House" - Women in Film (1995) (TV)
• Fantasies Vol. 1 (1995)
• Lusty Busty Fantasies (1995) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Lusty Busty Fantasies (USA: complete title)
• Then and Now #6 (1995)
• Bikini Bistro (1995)
• All My Best (1994)
• Bedtime Fantasies (1994) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Fantasies
• New York Nights (1994)
• Breakfast in Bed (1990)
• The Marilyn Diaries (1990)
• Who Shot Patakango? (1989) - aka Breakin' the Rules (UK), aka Brooklyn Love Story, aka *Who Shot Pat?
• Legends of Porn II (1989)
• Party Girls (1989) - aka Party Inc. (USA), aka Party Incorporated
• Legends of Porn (1987)
• Private Fantasies VI (1986) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies VI
• First Annual XRCO Adult Film Awards (1985)
• Private Fantasies V (1985) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies V
• Insatiable II (1984) - aka Hell on Heels (Europe: English title)
• My Therapist (1984) - aka Love Ya Florence Nightingale
• Private Fantasies 4 (1984) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 4 (USA: complete title)
• Angel of H.E.A.T. (1983) - aka Angel from H.E.A.T., aka The Protectors, Book 1
• Up 'n Coming (1983) - aka Cassie (USA: cable TV title)
• Private Fantasies (1983) - aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies
• Playboy Video Magazine, Vol. 4 (1983)
• Night on the Town (1982)
• Electric Blue 1 (1982)
• Electric Blue 8 (1982)
• Electric Blue 2 (1982)
• Insatiable (1980)
• Beyond De Sade (1979)
• Never a Tender Moment (1979)
• Rabid (1977) - aka Rage (USA)
• Sexual Ecstasy of the Macumba (1975) - aka Ecstasy of the Macumba (USA: short title)
• Resurrection of Eve (1973)
• Behind the Green Door (1972)
• Together (1971) - aka Sensual Paradise (UK)
• The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)

Trivia

• Marilyn Chambers also had some chart success with the Disco single "Benihana" in 1976, produced by Michael Zager on the Roulette Records label.

• In the 2004 United States presidential election, Marilyn Chambers ran for Vice President on the Personal Choice Party ticket, a quasi-libertarian party. She received a total of 69 votes.

• In 2000, Tracy Hutson played Marilyn in the Mitchell Brothers' made-for-cable biopic, Rated X.

• As of 2006, she resides with her daughter McKenna Marie Taylor.

• In Behind the Green Door, she had an interracial sex scene with Johnny Keyes that lasted for over 45 minutes; at the conclusion of it, she fainted.

• Marilyn is believed to be the first adult movie star to have both nipples and both labia minora pierced.

External links

• Official vice-presidential campaign site
• Marilyn Chambers and Ivory Snow at snopes.com