Marilyn Chambers
 

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- 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.

Chambers began her career in 1970 as a model for Ivory Snow soap, and 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 adult 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 porn 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 Chambers, 56, in the mobile home where she lived in the Canyon Country area and called police Sunday evening, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitemore said.

The death appeared to be from natural causes, although toxicology tests have not been completed, Whitemore said.

The coroner's investigation has not been completed, and no cause of death has been determined, according to a spokesman with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office.

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, Jeremy said.

R.I.P. Marilyn Chambers. :(

56 seems so young.

It does to me too.


Marilyn is someone I saw a lot of. :tear:

Wow, a lot of iconic deaths lately.

Glad I got to see her! Only now do I realize her importance, considering she's a year younger than me!! :heartbeat 56/100.

R.I.P. Marilyn.....one of my faves..for sure.

If only Harry Kalas had narrated a Marilyn Chambers flick before they passed.....wow....that would have been awesome!!! NFL films would never be the same for me after that...lol. :)

R.I.P. Harry Kalas & Mark "The Bird" Fidrych

Imagine how young it seems from my perspective :yikes:

There has never been one quite like her, & I fear there never will be another.

It may have been in one of the "Insatiable" movies, a scene where Marilyn is searching her pantry for something, & stumbles across an Ivory Snow box...she looks at it, moves it aside, shaking her head with that devilish ironic smile...to paraphrase the old show biz motto, cumming is easy, but comedy is hard. RIP Miss Chambers.

My Joe told me this morning. His favorite porn movie was "Behind the Green Door," which he had me watch with him during our first month together.

I always felt "Green Door" was over-rated, not enough sex scenes until the last reel...but, boy howdy, those last scenes of Marilyn "pulling the train" :weg:

MC's finest was "Insatiable" both I & II, IMO...

Sad to see her go.

I hope it was peaceful.

Insatiable is magical - think my favorite, Behind the Green Door, more mythical... the legend of MC. Oddly, I enjoy her movies more than whats found in circulation now days.

Fiftysex err.. six is far too young... I agree Lil.

Debbie Does Dallas and Insatiable were my first porn movies. I was 14 staying at a friend's Aunt's house for the summer in Miami. I left that place brown in places that had never seen the sun before, loving bikers, and much wiser sexually.

. . .I met my first love at thirteen,
she was brown and I was pretty green. . .
and i learned quite a lot
when i was young

Such a Burden to place on the girl.