RIP: Marilyn Chambers

April 14, 2009 at 5:26 am

Who remembers Marilyn Chambers? Oi, you at the back there, put that porno mag away and pay attention!

Porn icon Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her Los Angeles home Sunday night, but investigators do not suspect foul play, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesman.

She began her career in 1970 as a model for Ivory Snow soap but starred two years later in the porn classic “Behind the Green Door.”

“She was a really nice girl,” said actor Ron Jeremy, who co-starred with Chambers in a few iffy films starting in the 1970s.

Chambers’ death was a “total shock,” Jeremy said, because they had been scheduled to sign a contract Monday to perform together in an off-Broadway “tongue-in-cheek” re-enactment of the classic “Deep Throat.”

“What’s strange is that she was at a stage where she was totally happy and totally content with her life,” Jeremy said. “Her life was falling together, and she was doing really well.”

A family member found her in the mobile home where she lived in the Canyon Country area and called police Sunday evening. The death appeared to be from natural causes, although toxicology tests have not been completed so you’ve got to wonder what she was taking.

Although her career was mostly in X-rated films, Chambers’ fame was boosted by the irony that her face had graced the Ivory Snow box, a soap advertised as “99 and 44/100 percent pure.”

Chambers eventually co-starred with all of the best-known porn actors of the 1970s and 1980s and must have boosted sales of Kleenex to teenagers by a staggering percentage.

TheEye in his infancy was blissfully unaware of such messiness at the time Marilyn was entertaining the crowd – although has caught up on the practical bits since.