A sad day: Marilyn Chambers :( :( :(

[john-the-author]

According to MSNBC here:

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Adult film star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56

One-time Ivory Snow model became famous for ‘Behind the Green Door’
LOS ANGELES - A friend of adult film star Marilyn Chambers says the actress has been found dead at her home in northern Los Angeles County.

Peggy McGinn says the 56-year-old Chambers was found by her 17-year-old daughter Sunday night and the cause of death has not been determined.

Chambers starred in the 1972 film "Behind the Green Door," which was more widely distributed and attracted a more mainstream audience than the usual adult fare.

Chambers, whose given name was Marilyn Briggs, was once a model for Ivory Snow. She was among the first porn superstars when the stag films of the 1940s through 1960s gave way to the more polished sex films of the 1970s.

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Damn damn damn. She was always one of my favorites, no matter what age she was. I thought she was seriously scrumptious. Fuck.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

So young! So sad.

 

[Belegon]

 

[jomar]

Huh.

 

[rwattsIII]

remember.....

I remember her. Two years younger than I am. What a shame. I'm pretty sure it was her I saw take John Homles anal. That was a sight.

What a pretty girl.

 

[Guest]

 

[jomar]

I remember her. Two years younger than I am. What a shame. I'm pretty sure it was her I saw take John Homles anal. That was a sight.

What a pretty girl.

Okay, I laughed.

Where were you when she took it backdoor from Holmes. Ahh, I was in that booth on the seedy side of town and down to my last token when it happened...and it was bliss.

On a serious note, she was too young to go.

 

[TE999]

 

[Dragonlipz]

She was a beauty

and probably a lot of fun.....

 

[peterbrazen]

What's really

What;s really sad is that her 17 year old daughter found her . . . and THAT is really sad. It will be, unfortunately the last memory she has of her mom .


She made many people happy and hopefully her daughter as well.

 

[rwattsIII]

seedy booth.....

Okay, I laughed.

Where were you when she took it backdoor from Holmes. Ahh, I was in that booth on the seedy side of town and down to my last token when it happened...and it was bliss.

Well, it was prior to VCR's. I can tell you that. So you're probably right.

 

[cloudy]

I remember her. Two years younger than I am. What a shame. I'm pretty sure it was her I saw take John Homles anal. That was a sight.

What a pretty girl.

How sad is it that that's what she's remembered for. She wasn't a person to you, just a hole.



RIP, Ms. Chambers.

 

[Guest]

This movie. I remember.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/Insatiable.jpg

 

[Huckleman2000]

How sad is it that that's what she's remembered for. She wasn't a person to you, just a hole.



RIP, Ms. Chambers.

Not to be too flip, but it was her choice to be remembered for it. And, if true, it sounds like an impressive feat for someone in that line of work.

I didn't take it that rwatts thought of her as "just a hole." I doubt if anyone here knew her personally; the only way any of us know of her is from her porn star past. Did "porn stars" even exist before Marilyn?

How does one acknowledge a pioneer in the field of being famous for having a broad range of sex acts with enormous cocks on film?

 

[cloudy]

Not to be too flip, but it was her choice to be remembered for it. And, if true, it sounds like an impressive feat for someone in that line of work.

I didn't take it that rwatts thought of her as "just a hole." I doubt if anyone here knew her personally; the only way any of us know of her is from her porn star past. Did "porn stars" even exist before Marilyn?

How does one acknowledge a pioneer in the field of being famous for having a broad range of sex acts with enormous cocks on film?

I realize all that, but when someone dies, it's so not cool to say, "Damn! Did you see that big cock she took up her ass?"

So disrespectful...as if that was all she was.

 

[rwattsIII]

How sad is it that that's what she's remembered for. She wasn't a person to you, just a hole.



RIP, Ms. Chambers.

 

[john-the-author]

Marilyn Chambers always seemed like she was an actual human being, particularly in her later stuff where she did a lot of interacting with the viewer. She sounded relaxed and like she had actual depth. I realize this could all be an act, but I'm not entirely sure that she was that good of an actress. I think I would've liked her as a person and I'm sorry that I never got to meet her. (This isn't true of all porn actresses: for example, Ginger Lynn on her talk show sounds like she's still very much the party girl she's always been but she's not as deep as one might like.)

Marilyn was also incredibly attractive, both as a young slender woman in Insatiable and as a plumper mature woman in her later films. I've always thought she was amazingly desirable. I'm sorry she's gone.

 

[DesertPirate]

A for her family

 

[slyc_willie]

Marilyn Chambers always seemed like she was an actual human being, particularly in her later stuff where she did a lot of interacting with the viewer. She sounded relaxed and like she had actual depth. I realize this could all be an act, but I'm not entirely sure that she was that good of an actress. I think I would've liked her as a person and I'm sorry that I never got to meet her. (This isn't true of all porn actresses: for example, Ginger Lynn on her talk show sounds like she's still very much the party girl she's always been but she's not as deep as one might like.)

Marilyn was also incredibly attractive, both as a young slender woman in Insatiable and as a plumper mature woman in her later films. I've always thought she was amazingly desirable. I'm sorry she's gone.

I agree. She was an original. Ask any silicone-implanted modern porn bambi to express the sort of casual attractiveness, demure yet sultry facade Marilyn seemed born with, and they'll glaze over with a blank look and say "Marilyn who?"

Both Behind The Green Door and Insatiable remain eternally embedded in my adult film archives. Notice I didn't say "porn." These were films as serious in their execution as any effort by DeMille or Jackson, and bear no resemblance to the "Hi, I'm Tracy and I want to get fucked by a monster dick" tripe served out via Van Nuys and elsewhere these days.

Some critics at the time may have scoffed, but hers were, indeed, art films.

And damn fucking sexy art films, too.

 

[john-the-author]

I agree. She was an original. Ask any silicone-implanted modern porn bambi to express the sort of casual attractiveness, demure yet sultry facade Marilyn seemed born with, and they'll glaze over with a blank look and say "Marilyn who?"

Both Behind The Green Door and Insatiable remain eternally embedded in my adult film archives. Notice I didn't say "porn." These were films as serious in their execution as any effort by DeMille or Jackson, and bear no resemblance to the "Hi, I'm Tracy and I want to get fucked by a monster dick" tripe served out via Van Nuys and elsewhere these days.

Some critics at the time may have scoffed, but hers were, indeed, art films.

And damn fucking sexy art films, too.

The orgy scene in "Behind the Green Door" was some of my favorite video stuff for a long time. The people in the audience looked like real people, not the silicone-injected, surgically-altered, genetic mutants you see today.

 

[slyc_willie]

The orgy scene in "Behind the Green Door" was some of my favorite video stuff for a long time. The people in the audience looked like real people, not the silicone-injected, surgically-altered, genetic mutants you see today.

YES!

That was an aspect of realism you'd never find in any adult film today. It was as if the producers picked a real-life swinger's party and decided to move in with cameras. And I really liked the whole introduction of the well-endowed black man before he approached Marilyn on the bed. That, in itself, was an expression of "it's hoakey but it's not" realism.

*sigh* We need more films like that.

 

[john-the-author]

YES!

That was an aspect of realism you'd never find in any adult film today. It was as if the producers picked a real-life swinger's party and decided to move in with cameras. And I really liked the whole introduction of the well-endowed black man before he approached Marilyn on the bed. That, in itself, was an expression of "it's hoakey but it's not" realism.

*sigh* We need more films like that.

Definitely. I've always been rather fond of amateur vids for that reason: people look like people, people you might now or have had sex with. A lot of 'em are definitely good-looking, but they're not buffed, waxed, and Simonized as well. Well, and the women are frequently have a little padding to them, which I dearly love. But it's still another argument against the people in porn today, many of whom you think you could light matches on and they'd not notice.

Oh, and pubic hair--I'm fond of women with pubic hair. Much harder to find that now.

 

[slyc_willie]

Definitely. I've always been rather fond of amateur vids for that reason: people look like people, people you might now or have had sex with. A lot of 'em are definitely good-looking, but they're not buffed, waxed, and Simonized as well. Well, and the women are frequently have a little padding to them, which I dearly love. But it's still another argument against the people in porn today, many of whom you think you could light matches on and they'd not notice.

Oh, and pubic hair--I'm fond of women with pubic hair. Much harder to find that now.

Yeah, a little paunch to the middle and some blemishes on the backside . . . give me real, I tell ya. We both prefer watching the "real" vids, but they're hard to come by.

The SO and I had a discussion regarding pubic hair a while back. I convinced her to leave a little on top; she convinced me to shave my balls and trim the rest down to a shadow.

It's all about preferences, I guess.

 

[S-Des]

I downloaded Behind The Green Door (a film I always wanted to see) as a tribute. I didn't see her until the mid-80s, but she was still one of my favorites (right behind Ginger Lynn, Barbara Dare and Joanna Storm). Very sad.

 

[slyc_willie]

I downloaded Behind The Green Door (a film I always wanted to see) as a tribute. I didn't see her until the mid-80s, but she was still one of my favorites (right behind Ginger Lynn, Barbara Dare and Joanna Storm). Very sad.

I've come to see Ginger Lynn as Marilyn Chambers, Pt. II

Although she certainly earned her own place in the annals of adult film on the strength of her own character and performance.

Ah, if only I could go back in time . . . .

But the SO would be jealous . . . unless I could take her with me.