Marilyn Chambers
Biography 
Birthdate: Tuesday 22nd of April 1952Age: 59 years young
(April 22, 1952 – April 12, 2009) was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, model, actress and vice-presidential candidate. She was best known for her 1972 hardcore film debut Behind the Green Door.
Born Marilyn Ann Briggs in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Westport, Connecticut in a middle-class household. It is often reported that she was born in Westport, however in a 2007 interview Chambers confirmed she was born in Providence but grew up in Westport. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. She was the youngest of three children, including a brother, Martin Briggs, and a sister, Jann Smith. Chambers attended Burr Farms Elementary School, Hillspoint Elementary School, Long Lots Junior High School, and Staples High School. Her father tried to discourage her from pursuing a modeling career, citing brutal competition. Chambers said in 2005, "When I was about 16 I learned how to write my mother’s name on notes to get out of school. And then I'd take the train into the city to go to auditions". This initiative while in high school landed her some modeling assignments and a small role in the film The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), which starred Barbra Streisand and in which Chambers was credited as Evelyn Lang.
Marilyn Briggs fled her loveless home in 1969 to model in New York. She did topless stills, Pepsi and Clairol commercials and a small role in The Owl and the Pussycat where she appeared in bed half-naked. When Barbara Streisand didn't want to tour to promote the film, the job fell to Marilyn. She later moved to Los Angeles where an important producer had a deal for her - He'd provide her with an apartment, a car, acting lessons, spending money, roles in major films and career guidance in exchange for Marilyn being his mistress. But she didn't want to be tied down to an old man with a big paunch and rejected his offer.
On his way out the door, the shocked producer told Marilyn that she'd never make it in the biz. He was right. Marilyn never succeeded in mainstream entertainment.
Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel "auditioned" her in 1974, asking many questions about her sex life, but the interview ended when Marilyn refused to blow them.
Finding no work in L.A. in 1971, Marilyn moved to San Francisco but still could not find acting jobs that paid. The slim blonde danced nude for a few weeks but quit because it depressed her. While working as a waitress in a health restaurant, Marilyn read an ad placed by the Mitchell Brothers about a major film they were casting. She charged down to O'Farrells and read the audition notice which asked if the actor wanted a balling or non-balling part. Marilyn at first thought the notice meant bowling but in a few minutes Marilyn realized that the film was X-rated. She turned to leave.
It'd been a depressing day for Jim and Artie Mitchell for all the girls who'd answered their ad appeared burned out. Then they saw the fresh looking Marilyn leave the building. They chased after her and by late that afternoon, they'd signed her to do their movie.
When Marilyn told her beatnik husband that evening about what she'd done, he became angry. But Marilyn stood by her decision. After venting his feelings, Paul kept quiet for he believed in individual freedom. But he must've suspected their relationship was changing, and within a couple of years they divorced.
The Mitchells gave Marilyn a new last name to go with her starring role - Chambers.
Marilyn was the youngest of three children. She'd spent her life unsuccessfully competing for her parents attention. Learning that she couldn't please them, Marilyn decided to defy them. By appearing in Behind the Green Door, she got to defy and impress her family in a way they'd never forget. (John Hubner)
So that her reaction to being raped would be genuine, Marilyn never read the script of Behind the Green Door which is based on an anonymous story that men had been passing around since World War II. A woman named Gloria is kidnapped from a hotel and taken to a secret sex club.
"That's why I think the film hit," says Marilyn. "I lost my inhibitions onscreen at the same time Americans everywhere were losing theirs. [BF]
"I discovered that I had to break loose or I'd be trapped for the rest of my life in this guilt that had been festering inside me. Leaving New York was such a load off mys houlders. I didn't have to impress somebody... I think it was an opening of my mind, where I was at, when I met Doug. He really opened me up. "Forget it! Forget your parents! Forget what happened to you before! Be here now!" That really appealed to me..."
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