Marilyn Chambers Bio

Best known for her groundbreaking performances in Behind the Green Door
(1972), and The Resurrection of Eve (1973), Marilyn Chambers sparked a
revolution in the adult entertainment industry.  Before Chambers there were
two kinds of women:  the good girls who stayed home, raised kids and baked
bread; and the naughty girls, who went to bars, had sex and performed in
porn flicks.  Marilyn blurred the line between the two.

Marilyn Chambers was every man's fantasy:  The pretty young woman who
looked as if she belonged in the church choir, but who, behind closed
doors, showed a voracious appetite for everything hard, wet and
penetrating.  In many ways, she was the very personification of the sexual
revolution.

Born in 1952, as Marilyn Ann Briggs, she grew up in Westport, Connecticut.
Her childhood was filled with dreams of someday becoming a star.  She said
of herself in a 1977 interview, "I've always been something of an
exhibitionist."  Even as a young girl she demonstrated great ambition and
drive by becoming an accomplished Junior Olympics diver and gymnast.
Although her parents were very much against it, at the age of 14 the
independent Marilyn was out pounding the streets of New York, knocking on
the doors of all the modeling agencies in town.  With a wholesome beauty
and unstoppable drive, she was soon getting plenty of work, including
shoots for Ivory Snow and Pepsi.

Success as a model led Chambers to Hollywood, but Marilyn soon became
disgusted with the casting couch mentality young starlets are often subject
too.  After doing a bit part in Barbara Streisand's 1970 The Owl and the
Pussycat, Chambers moved to San Francisco to rethink her career.  This is
were she met producers Artie and Jim Mitchell.

After responding to an advertisement in a local newspaper, Marilyn met with
the Mitchell's and like their honest, forthright approach.  She told the
L.A. Times, "Ironically, there was no casting couch with them.  The
Mitchell Brothers were very honest guys who were only interested in making
a buck."  Originally, she was hesitant and only agreed to play a non-sexual
role in Behind the Green Door.  However, after much thought, she eventually
agreed to play Gloria, a young girl who is kidnapped and forced into exotic
sex acts on stage.  Commenting on her decision, Chambers told reporter
Robert Hilburn, "I thought I'd take a shot.  I was intrigued by the story.
I really liked the fantasy involved.  And I figured it might be my last
chance at something really big."  However, before agreeing to the role the
savvy Marilyn negotiated a very lucrative contract, 10% of the movie's box
office gross.  And in the pre-disease aware era of the early '70s, she
insisted on VD tests for the entire cast.

The movie was a huge hit, and led to her memorable performance in the 1973
smash, The Resurrection of Eve.  The two movies combined, reportedly
grossed close to $30 million at the box office (before video).  Audiences
loved the way this elegant, beautiful woman showed a genuine lust for sex
and greeted each act with unparalleled hunger.

The success of Behind the Green Door also created quite a stir in the
advertisement industry.  Just one week before the opening of Behind the
Green Door, Ivory Snow put one of Marilyn's pictures (taken during her
modeling days) on their soap boxes.  Her clean-cut, all-American good looks
seemed perfect to represent their product... until they learned she was
starring in the most popular X-rated film of the day!  They immediately
discontinued the soap boxes, which of course are now highly sought after
collector's items.

With the notoriety she had gained, Chambers went on to land the female lead
in David Cronenberg's 1977 cult classic Rabid, and later in the martial
arts film, The Angel of H.E.A.T. (1982).  Marilyn also pursued an ill-fated
musical career, doing stage shows in New York and Las Vegas, and in 1977,
cut a disco single, "Benihana".

Chambers returned to adult entertainment with her Private Fantasies video
series and her short lived cable venture, MC-TV.  She has continued to
appear in both adult and general-interest projects, including videos such
as Insatiable and Up 'N Coming, and the stage show  "Sexual Surrogate".
She can also be seen in the cable TV soft-core series, Marilyn Chambers'
Bedtime Stories.  Despite a relatively limited number of hard-core
releases, Marilyn was given the Adult Video Association's Lifetime
Achievement Award in 1992, for her groundbreaking work and significance in
the industry.

Now in her forties, Marilyn still looks sensational.  She is living in
Southern California with her young daughter, and has recently filed for
divorce from her husband of ten years.  In typical Marilyn style, she has
many irons in the fire.  Currently, she is under contract to do two
general-interest movies and has an up coming date with Al Bundy, on
"Married with Children".  She is also researching a couple of projects of
her own.

Chambers is constantly offered extremely well paying contracts to headline
typical Vegas-style nude dance shows.  However, she turns them down flat.
As she matures both as an individual and an entertainer, Marilyn would like
her career to come full circle.  She wants to be remembered for her
thoughtful elegance and showmanship, not simply her sexual appetite.  After
all, these really are the characteristics that made her a star.  She is
currently developing an in-depth documentary covering the motivation behind
the adult industry's leading icons.  She is also talking with backers in
Las Vegas about doing an erotic review that will allow her the freedom to
demonstrate her finer qualities and still provide the highly entertaining,
hot fun we have come to expect from anything she touches.

If you would like to learn more about Marilyn, write to: Marilyn Chambers'
Fan Club, 4526 West Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada 89102.  Be sure to
enclose a SASE.

Marilyn has given us a modest, yet grand and very popular body of work.
She is truly one of the most beautiful and sensual women to have ever acted
in adult films, and her innocence still seduces us today, over two decades
since her initiation into the world of erotica.

Marilyn Chamber's Films:

 Behind the Green Door (MIT)  72 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Barbara
Bryan.  Rating: 2 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $14.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 Breakfast in Bed (WES)  90 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Angela
Schreiber.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $18.95
(Photo and Movie Review)

 Insatiable (CAB)  80 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Serena.  Rating: 3
Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Insatiable #2 (CAB)  85 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Juliet Anderson.
Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie
Review)

 Inside Marilyn Chambers (MIT)  75 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Tyler
Horne.  Rating: 2.5 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $14.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 Legends of Porn #1 (CAL)  120 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Seka.
Rating: 4 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $14.95 (Photo and Movie
Review)

 Legends of Porn #2 (CAL)  120 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Ginger
Lynn.  Rating: 4 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $14.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Stories (WES)  90 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Camille Donatacci.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale
Price $18.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #1 (CAB)  66 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Annette Haven.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale
Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #2 (CAB)  71 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Tantala.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price
$9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #3 (CAB)  80 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Gaylee Marie.  Rating: 2 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale
Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #4 (CAB)  82 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Sheri St. Clare.  Rating: 4 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale
Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #5 (CAB)  90 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers, Ami Rogers.  Rating: 4 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price
$9.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies #6 (CAB)  84 Min. Starring:  Marilyn
Chambers.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price $9.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 The Marilyn Diaries (WES)  90 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Tara
Buckman.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $18.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 Rabid (WAR)  90 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Patricia Gage.  Rating:
3 Stars! Regular Price $48.95 -- Sale Price $29.95 (Photo and Movie Review)

 The Resurrection of Eve (MIT)  82 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Mimi
Morgan.  Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $28.95 -- Sale Price $14.95 (Photo
and Movie Review)

 Up and Coming (CAB)  85 Min. Starring:  Marilyn Chambers, Lisa De Leeuw.
Rating: 3 Stars! Regular Price $18.95 -- Sale Price $9.95 (Photo and Movie
Review)