Porn legend Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her home outside Santa Clarita last night, with the cause of death yet to be determined.

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 soapbox with a baby and the caption “99 & 44/100% pure.” [NBC-LA]

Chambers, who was initially ambivalent about starring in Behind the Green Door, asked Artie and Jim Mitchell for a $25,000 salary and a percentage of the gross, never expecting they’d agree. After filming concluded, she informed them that she was “the Ivory Snow Girl”; the Mitchells capitalized on this by billing her as the “99 and 44/100% pure” girl.

She was noted for her enthusiastic performances of deep throat, anal, lesbian, interracial, extreme bukkake, and double or triple penetration scenes. She was one of the first female stars to shave her pubic hair, a practice now routine for porn actresses. …she was supposedly one of the few actresses that could fully deepthroat John Holmes’ penis. [Wiki]

So, uh, they probably won’t put that on her tombstone.  Nonetheless, a true pioneer, she will be missed.  By the way, what’s “extreme bukkake”?  Is that like when you do it on a dirtbike?  Intense.