Editing Marilyn Chambers (section)

==Early life==
Born Marilyn Ann Briggs<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/movies/14chambers.html|title=Marilyn Chambers, Sex Star, Dies at 56 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 14, 2009}}</ref> in [[Providence, Rhode Island]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Doubet|first=Phil |title=My Pryor Year: A 333 Soul Anthology|publisher=iUniverse|year=2006|pages=120|isbn=0-595-39157-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.projo.com/news/content/PROVIDENCE_NATIVE_MARILYN_CHAMBE_04-14-09_NVE_v17.325e19b.html |title=Providence-born porn star Marilyn Chambers dies at 56 |last=Morgan |first=Thomas J. |access-date=April 14, 2009 |archive-date=April 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416163412/http://www.projo.com/news/content/PROVIDENCE_NATIVE_MARILYN_CHAMBE_04-14-09_NVE_v17.325e19b.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chambers was raised in [[Westport, Connecticut|Westport]], Connecticut,<ref name=westport>{{cite web|url=http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2/comments/23202/|title=Adult Film Star Marilyn Chambers, Ex-Westporter, Dies at 56|date=2009-04-13|publisher=westportnow.com|access-date=2009-04-16}}</ref> in a [[middle-class]] household. It is often reported that she was born in Westport; however, in a 2007 interview, Chambers confirmed she was born in Providence but grew up in Westport.<ref name=nytobit/> Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. She was the youngest of three children, a brother, Bill Briggs (keyboardist for 1960s Boston band [[The Remains (band)|The Remains]]), and a sister, Jann Smith.<ref name=westport /> Chambers attended Burr Farms Elementary School, Hillspoint Elementary School, Long Lots Junior High School, and [[Staples High School]] where she graduated in 1970 and was voted "Best Student Body".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.classmates.com/siteui/yearbooks/4182941946?page=165|title=Classmates - Find your school, yearbooks and alumni online|website=Classmates.com|access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref name=westport/><ref>[https://www.thehour.com/westport/article/Westport-remembers-Marilyn-Chambers-8275028.php "Westport remembers Marilyn Chambers," ''The Hour'' (Norwalk, CT), Monday, April 13, 2009.] Retrieved April 11, 2022.</ref> Her father tried to discourage her from pursuing a modeling career, citing brutal competition. "Ever since I was a little kid, I've always wanted to be an actress," Chambers said in 1997. "I was always a performer, a junior Olympic diver, a junior Olympic gymnast. My mother always told me I was a show-off".<ref name="Femme Fatales" />

{{anchor|Ivory Snow girl}}"When I was about 16, I learned how to write my mother’s name on notes to get out of school", she said. "And then I'd take the train into the city to go to auditions".<ref>''The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry'', cited in WestportNow.com</ref> While in high school, she landed some modeling assignments and a small role in the film ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]'' (1970),<ref name=nytobit/> in which Chambers was credited as Evelyn Lang. During her early career as a model, her most prominent job was as the "Ivory Soap girl" on the [[Ivory (soap)|Ivory Snow]] soap flake box, posing as a mother holding a baby under the tag line "99 & 44/100% pure".<ref name=falk/><ref name=Kelly/><ref name=love/><ref>[http://www.snopes.com/risque/porn/chambers.htm Marilyn Chambers and Ivory Snow], snopes.com</ref><ref name=Hardcore>{{cite book|title=Hard core: power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible"|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|author=Williams, Linda |year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wAe48_yfNUC|isbn=0-520-21943-0|pages=156–158|author-link=Linda Williams (film critic)}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Sex Scene |magazine=[[SCREW (magazine)|SCREW]] |date=May 7, 1973 |url=https://40.media.tumblr.com/3df954e66c6782fbc5f1633f3b714b2a/tumblr_n4yv0acN641sbtct0o1_1280.jpg |access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref>