**** Icon Marilyn Chambers Found Dead
April 13, 2009
CANYON COUNTRY - Famed adult film star Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her home in the Canyon Country area, authorities said today.
L.A. County Sheriff's investigators tell KTLA that the 56-year-old actress was discovered Sunday night just before 9p.m. by her daughter McKenna in a mobile home in the 16000 block of Vasquez Canyon Road.
Chambers, whose real name was Marilyn Ann Taylor, had been living at the Canyon Country location for the past several months.
No cause of death was given, but investigators say foul play is not suspected.
An autopsy is planned.
Chambers broke into the **** industry by appearing in the 1972 film "Behind the Green Door," which was the first widely released ************ film in the United States.
Her appearance in the film cost the then-aspiring model and actress her job as Procter & Gamble's Ivory Snow girl, appearing on the soap box with a baby and the caption "99 & 44/100% pure."
The Providence, R.I., native had a bit part in the 1970 Barbra Streisand film "The Owl and the *****cat," but after establishing herself as a ************ film star, she was never able to break into mainstream films.