Marilyn Chambers, porn star, dies at 56

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Story Published: Apr 13, 2009 at 4:04 PM PDT

Story Updated: Apr 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM PDT

CANYON COUNTRY -- Adult film star Marilyn Chambers was found dead
in her Canyon Country area home, and a coroner's official said Monday an autopsy was pending to determine if she died of natural causes as suspected.

Chambers, whose real name was Marilyn Ann Taylor, was found dead around 9 p.m. Sunday in the 16000 block of Vasquez Canyon Road, said Assistant Chief Ed Winter of the coroner's office. She was 56.

"She probably died of natural causes,'' Winter said, adding that an autopsy would be done Tuesday or Wednesday.

Chambers broke into the porn industry by appearing in the 1972 film "Behind the Green Door,'' which was the first widely released pornographic 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 Pussycat,'' but after establishing herself as a
pornographic film star, she was never able to break into mainstream films.

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