A promotional photo of adult film star Marilyn Chambers from the early 1970s. Chambers, 56, was found dead at her home in Canyon Country, Calif., on Sunday.
Marilyn Chambers reached the public eye first as a model on an Ivory Snow detergent box, but when she starred in a pornographic film, Procter and Gamble decided not to renew her contract. Chambers told a news conference in San Francisco in 1973 that the company was making a mistake. “They should play it up as a good thing. They’d sell more boxes of Ivory Snow,” she said.
Marilyn Chambers, left, poses with Tracy Hutson, the actress who portrayed her in the Showtime film “Rated X,” at a screening in Beverly Hills. The film starred brothers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen as 1970s adult filmmakers Jim and Artie Mitchell.
