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The film told the story of a wealthy San Francisco socialite, Gloria Saunders (Chambers), who is taken against her will to an elite sex club and loved as she’s never been loved before. Unusually, Chambers does not have a single word of dialogue in the entire film. After engaging in lesbian sex with a group of six women, she then has sex with actor . This possibly makes the first U.S. feature-length film to include an interracial sex scene. The porn industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man. The scene with Keyes is followed by Chambers mounting a trapeze contraption suspended from the ceiling. She then engages in vaginal intercourse with one man as she performs oral sex on another and masturbates two others.
Chambers claimed that and brought her in to talk about a role in the 1978 film , then asked her for cocaine and grilled her about whether her orgasms in were real; she was angered to the point where she stormed out of the interview. She was going to be cast in the film , opposite , but the casting director took one look at her and said she was too wholesome to be cast as a porn queen. “The people wanted a woman with orange hair who chews gum, swings a big purse, and wears stiletto heels. That’s such a cliche,” Chambers said years later. was cast instead.
Chambers won the starring role in ‘s low-budget , , which was released in 1977. Cronenberg stated that he wanted to cast in the film lead, but the studio vetoed his choice because of her accent. The director says that the idea of casting Chambers came from producer , who had heard that Chambers was looking for a mainstream role. Reitman felt that it would be easier to market the film in different territories if the well-known porn star portrayed the main character. Cronenberg stated that Chambers put in a lot of hard work on the film and that he was impressed with her. Cronenberg further states he had not seen prior to casting her.
Although she had tried for several years to shed her image as a porn star, Chambers returned to the adult film industry with 1980’s . In the film, she played actress, model, and heiress Sandra Chase, whose appetite for sex is, as the title suggests, insatiable. Sandra is getting ready to make a movie and her manager, played by , is working on getting some big names to appear alongside Sandra. The story is told in a series of flashbacks which detail Sandra’s sexual encounters.
Marilyn Chambers was the queen of classic porn and one of the sexiest porn stars of all time. I love her slender, natural, athletic body in the films she made in the 70’s and 80’s. I still watch her movies and still masturbate to them.
