What a shocker !! Definitely one of the biggest names in the Adult biz - all time. I know everyone always brings up "Green Door", but when I think of Marilyn Chambers I think of "Instatiable". RIP - Marilyn
Sad news as that is relatively young. One thing about her is she was also the first porn star to do a "big" legit movie with her lead role in David Cronenberg's RABID. Obviously it is a bit of stunt casting, but I think she gives a really great performance in that and it is a shame that her past never allowed her to get further in Hollywood flicks.
What is an appropriate salute for a porn star of her stature? Turning off the marquees at nudie bars at a certain time like how Broadway theaters dim the lights when one of their stars dies?
so are any of you porn industry insiders going to tell us what happened???? curious minds want to know. ...marilyn chambers was beautiful. but I dont like any of the old time porn. and she was not active in porn over the last ten years. I saw her movie "still insatiable." But that movie had the choreographed routine feel of the old 70s/80s porn. Did "still insatiable" have music in each scene? I hate when porn has soundtracks. Im guessing marilyn was no fan of porn today. porn today pushes the envelope: its full of energy, and raw eroticism, dirty. I like the new porn. Marilyn had a website i remember, but the website wasnt there to push the envelope. my interpretation was she was trying to use her website to make an expression of feminist viewpoint. If im wrong, tell me im wrong. Beautiful woman. but "still insatiable" was fake. it wasnt real. although kyle ireland was adorable in that movie. kylie has gotten thicker since that movie, but shes still sexy. maybe kylie can give us a sequal to still insatiable!!!!!
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Posted - Apr 13 2009 : 6:53PM
^^^wow...doesn't this guy have a brilliant way with words? I think the thing that is 'thicker' might just be your skull.
I was very sad to hear of Marilyn's passing. I had the pleasure of working with her in 'Still Insatiable' (I was very nervous, she was a legend after all!)and then shortly after when I took on the role of VCA's Publicist, 'Still Insatiable' was the first movie I promoted. I worked with her on PR and at the convention that year. She was always a pleasant, warm individual who fully embraced her sexuality and was very down to earth. I don't know of any other details, although it appears that things may have gone downhill for her in the years since I saw her last. That saddens me. She is a legend in this industry, part of our very history and an individual who laid down many of the cornerstones our industry is built on. Kylie
Are you serious? This is very sad news. Marilyn is one of the legends of porn, and she helped make porn what it is today. She will definitely be missed.
Physically she wasn't my type, but I enjoyed watching her. To link it to another thread and something I've been thinking about for a long time, she never looked like she was acting. She always looked like it was real, that she was having the time of her life, and she'd still be there even if the cameras stopped running. She had a helluva smile, too.
That's very sad. In her films she came across as a smart, confident woman, very comfortable with her sexuality. Insatiable, Still Insatiable, even Behind the Green Door, although I think that hasn't aged as well as the other two, are thoroughly enjoyable, even sexy, porn films. RIP.
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Posted - Apr 13 2009 : 9:22PM
Very, very sad. Marilyn was probably porn's first big star, even if she never fully capitalized on it. I'll never forget seeing Green Door on the big screen and being left with the enduring images of Marilyn in rapture, then the middle of a circus act. A truly beautiful woman, and excitingly sexual.
Wow, Insatiable was one of the very first porn flicks I ever saw and her pooltable scene always set the bar to me for "hot." It's sad to hear of her passing. If she was survived by any family, my condolences to them all. I hope that she felt she lived a full and happy life. It's not how you died but how you lived that matters.
Marilyn Chambers didn't half amount of the movies of today's so-called starlets do, but Marilyn was in every sense of the world a true Porn Star. Her scenes were phenomenal and she could act as well. Anyone who could dominate a scene with John Holmes is special. Her efforts in Behind the Green Door and her pool table scene in Insatiable are legendary. Id take those two scenes over anything anyone has ever done. Edited by - mrbengrim on 4/13/2009 10:40:26 PM
I always thought she was gorgeous, and I always loved her performances. I got to meet her several years ago at an autograph show, and she was really nice to me.
My condolences to her friends and surviving family.
Today's young porn starlets, even some of today's hottest, should study up on the career of Marilyn Chambers and learn how she conducted herself, how she performed and how her fans adored her even though she really didn't a lot. I would bet most of today's empty headed dimwitted porn starlets couldn't even tell you who Marilyn Chambers is. I just hope it isnt true that marilyn ran into hard times and wasnt living at a trailor park when she died. Finally, her efforts in Behind the Green Door and that pool table scene in Insatiable are the two hottest scenes ever. Id take that pool table scene over anything Jenna Jameson ever did and Id certainly take that one scene over anyting jesse or that jenna haze has ever done. Marilyn Chambers should be remembered as the greatest ever. And the people who run porn today, hirsch at Vivid and others, should get together and stage a huge send off for Marilyn. She is deserving of a true tribute. That would be the classy thing to do. Let's see if Porn can get it right this one time. Edited by - mrbengrim on 4/13/2009 11:10:00 PM
I am sad! I loved everything about this woman and just found her performances and films to be so real. She seemed to enjoy being there was a joy to watch. She was a star from the get go. I will think fondly of her and pray for her tonight. Marilyn rocked and to see that her titles list is only 25 or so features and still to this day people have comments on her and they are highly favorable....tells you this woman was the TRUTH!!! Rest well, Marilyn....
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Posted - Apr 14 2009 : 8:01AM
I can't say that I was ever a fan of Marilyn Chambers' porn work, but I remember what a big deal it was when she made "Rabid", and I hoped that it would lead to more cross-over work for porn performers. For that she deserves a special place in porn's history.
The New York Times obituary... April 14, 2009 Marilyn Chambers, Sex Star, Dies at 56 By BRUCE WEBER Marilyn Chambers, whose photograph as the mother of a newborn on a laundry soap package and whose performance as a fantasy-fulfilling wanton in a pornographic movie evoked stunningly contrasting portrayals of womanhood, was found dead in her home on Sunday on the outskirts of Santa Clarita, Calif. She was 56. The cause was not yet determined, said Ed Winter, assistant chief of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. He said that the death was being investigated but that foul play was not suspected. Ms. Chambers was an aspiring actress and model in 1972 when she starred in “Behind the Green Door,” a pornographic film about a woman who is abducted to a theater and ravished in front of an audience, ultimately to her great satisfaction, by both men and women. It became especially popular when it was learned that its star was the same fresh-faced blonde who appeared beaming at a baby on boxes of Ivory Snow, a laundry soap famously described by Procter & Gamble, its manufacturer, as “99 and 44/100 percent pure.” Ms. Chambers declared at the time that her film would help “sell a lot more soap,” though Procter & Gamble did not see it that way and replaced her. “Behind the Green Door” was among the first X-rated films to gain wide distribution and, along with “Deep Throat,” released the same year, is generally credited with helping establish a mainstream market for pornography. “Behind the Green Door” was more than just a parade of sex scenes, said Steven Hirsch, the co-chief executive of Vivid Entertainment Group, which makes adult films. Even though Ms. Chambers did not actually have any lines in the film, he said, she brought it to life. “It was a movie that really dug deep into sexuality, psychologically,” Mr. Hirsch said in an interview on Monday. “It took you to a place that no other adult film had gone before, and the reason they were able to pull that off is that she was a talented actress.” When Ms. Chambers died, she was identified by documents with her body as Marilyn Ann Taylor, evidently the name she assumed after a marriage, though along with many other details that could not be confirmed on Monday. She was born, Mr. Winter said, on April 22, 1952, though he could not confirm that her birth name was, as often reported, Marilyn Ann Briggs. She is most often said to have been born in Westport, Conn., though in a 2007 interview with The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, Ms. Chambers said she was born in Providence and grew up in Westport. The Associated Press reported that her survivors include a daughter, McKenna Marie Taylor; a brother, Bill Briggs; and a sister, Jann Smith. Before making “Behind the Green Door,” Ms. Chambers had hoped to establish an acting career in fully clothed roles. She had had a small part in “The Owl and the Pussycat,” a 1970 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal, and she later appeared in “Rabid” (1977), an early film by David Cronenberg, but most of her work after “Green Door” capitalized on her fame as a sex star. “I thought there would be a chance to cross over,” she said in the Providence Journal interview. “Boy, was I wrong.” Adult film star Marilyn Chambers aka Mary Ann Taylor in this April 27, 2000 file photo.
Marilyn Chambers(R.I.P.)this is truly sad 56 is way to young to die.Behind The Green Door is one of the first VHS tapes that I owned in the early 80's.I saw Insatiable 2 in the theater.I would to say my favorite performance of hers was in Insatiable.She will truly be missed.
I got this stunning news this morning when I opened up the USA Today & then NY Times, I couldn't believe my eyes and I had a mouth full of Steak Egg/cheese bagel at McDs. I got these two papers for free this morning(they're handing them out now desperate for readers) and I had a funny feeling about what I'd find when I'd leaf thru the pages. First off this lady is/was/always will be a legend if not a TRUE porn goddess. Not the modern porn bumpkin who's burnt out inside 18 months time nowadays and takes a powder. Without the likes of Marilyn there would be no porn as we know it today. She pushed boundaries when there were truly boundaries standing ie INTERRACIAL. She was one of the first, if not THE first to do interracial scenes with conviction before it was a norm anywhere. (God! I hope producers don't solicit her daughter for porn, leave that girl alone.) The Private Fantasies series, in the early 80s, had some of Marilyn's hottest scenes and they never get old. The scenes from the various editions of that series featuring Peter NOrth, Rick Savage, Jack Baker(in hot IR Civil War! Plantation era scene with Marilyn). The Private Fantasies series are arguably one of the first gonzo, though high class shot on film with production values, along with The Caught From Behind series. Whether porn in Marilyn's 70s-80s heyday is better or worse than porn nowadays, is a matter of subjection. This wonderful, classy and very SEXY lady existed and we all are better and Im personally thankful for her life and foray into this industry. I've remembered a lot of merry moments today in recalling many a Marilyn scene and perhaps have held back from shedding a few tears. Rest in Peace Marilyn darling!, God Bless you and surviving family, and I hope you're in a much better place. Thank you for all the great times in darkened theaters and in front of the VCR.
wow... insatiable was one of my first films as well, plus i had this old magazine from the early 80's that had a spread and interview with her. definitely a shame.
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Posted - Apr 14 2009 : 8:45PM
I said Kylie still looks good, so why the attitude, Kylie? go look at yourself in "still insatiable" and go look at yourself now. you're a little thicker. you were more petite ten years ago. ...anyways something is not right. One of the articles on Marilyn Chambers said she was living in a trailer. nothing wrong with living in a trailer. I just dont understand how a woman, whose death hit every newspaper yesterday, and countless tv newscasts yesterday, spent her last days living in a trailer, instead of a nice house. Huge news, her death was. But she wasnt living in one of those nice houses like they use to film todays porn scenes. I'm guessing Jenna Jameson will be the only other porn star whose death will be headline news like that! Maybe Janine, but only because of her relationship with Jesse James, and he's news worthy only because of his relationship with Sandra Bullock. ...maybe Im expressing too many opinions here. Kylie's head might explode. Apparently Kylie dicates what people say on here. Edited by - obama-rama-bushtush-yippy on 4/14/2009 8:46:47 PM
Obama-yama, Kylie does not dictate what people say here. She has bigger fish to fry. What she was trying to tell you is that it is tasteless and ill-mannered to call a woman "thick," and to do so on a thread about the recent passing of someone on top of it. Do you really think it is appropriate so soon after Marilyn died for you to make derogatory comments about her films and to speculate about her being a "feminist?" Back in the day, there was such a thing as "respect for the dead." Edited by - Ibrox on 4/14/2009 9:15:26 PM
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Posted - Apr 14 2009 : 9:15PM
R.I.P.
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Posted - Apr 14 2009 : 9:18PM
ibrox: She was a peformer. I critiqued her career!!!! no further comment. ....I guess there wont be any corporate statement of sympathy from the ivory snow people!
I've watched just about every film featuring Marilyn Chambers and am saddened by her death. Say what you want but she was a major star in the day, right up there with Linda Lovelace. Her movie openings were events - just like today's Hollywood movies, they premiered at movie theaters. I want to write about her but really can only say how sad I am that the past few years had been hard on her and that she is no longer with us. For someone who brought true pleasure to so many lives, the end should be brighter than hers appears to have been. Good night, Ivory Snow Goddess.
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Posted - Apr 14 2009 : 10:45PM
Best two scenes I recall about Marilyn Chambers: Her jacuzzi lesbo scene with a short haired Serena from Insatible. A scene where she pulled a string of anal beads out of her ass. The beads were the size of cue balls. (Don't recall the title.)
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Posted - Apr 15 2009 : 2:52AM
To critique someone's career you should maybe watch more than one late period film. Her sexual performances in Beyond the Green Door and especially Insatiable are remarkable and The Resurrection of Eve and Rabid proved she could act.
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Posted - Apr 15 2009 : 4:54AM
As you can see by my handle, i love the classic ladies & Ms. Chambers you were one of them. So sad to see you go at 56....so young! There is a place for you in the real heaven wherever and whatever it is because you've made so many people happy!
This is a memorial thread to one of our all-time greats. Please knock off the back-and-forth personal sniping! I will start deleting inappropriate posts if this continues -- including retroactively. Thank you.
Yo mods, dont you think a tribute of some sort is necessary, a send off of sorts to Marilyn Chambers. Lets face it, she is an All Time Great. I consider her to be the first and best female porn star ever (first, over Linda Lovelace; and best over all of them, including Jenna Jameson). She was a natural...
yes, yes, yes,..there was a still of Serena pulling Marilyn's pussy lips, labia minora, about two inches out. It was like Marilyn had sweet water taffy for a vagina. It was great! and beautiful Marilyn with that 'wry' smile on her face that only she could conjure up.
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Posted - Apr 17 2009 : 5:24PM
One of the kindest people I've ever spoken to. She was so enthusiastic about doing a chat here. I might have given up on porn if it weren't for Insatiable. When people ask who would be a great spokesperson for the industry, well, we just lost her.