Editing Marilyn Chambers (section)

==== Hollywood ====
Chambers dreamed of having a career in mainstream films and believed her celebrity as the star of ''Behind the Green Door'' and the Ivory Snow girl would be a stepping stone to other endeavors. "The paradox was that, as a result of ''Green Door'', Hollywood blackballed me," she said later. "[''Green Door''] became a very high-grossing film&nbsp;... But, to a lot of people, it was still a dirty movie; for me to do anything else, as an ''actress'', was totally out of the question. I became known as a porno star, and that type of labeling really hurt me. It hurt my chances of doing anything else."<ref name="Femme Fatales">"Marilyn Chambers: Softcore & Sci-Fi," Dan Scapperotti, ''Femme Fatales'', September 1997, pp. 54–60</ref>

Throughout the 1970s, producers of several Hollywood films considered casting her. Her biggest opportunity came in 1976 when it was announced in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' that she was to star alongside [[Rip Torn]] in ''City Blues'', a film about a young hooker defended by a seedy lawyer. The film was to be directed by [[Nicholas Ray]]. Ray had never seen ''Behind the Green Door'' or even screen-tested Chambers. Instead, the two met and Ray was impressed. "I have a camera in my head," he said, adding that Chambers would "eventually be able to handle anything that the young [[Katharine Hepburn|Katie Hepburn]] or [[Bette Davis]] could." However, the project never came to fruition, in large part due to Ray's alcohol and drug abuse. Ray died in 1979.<ref>''Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director'', Patrick McGilligan, HarperCollins, Jul 12, 2011, p. 484</ref>

Chambers claimed that [[Jack Nicholson]] and [[Art Garfunkel]] brought her in to talk about a role in the 1978 film ''[[Goin' south|Goin' South]]'', then asked her for cocaine and grilled her about whether her orgasms in ''Behind the Green Door'' were real; she was angered to the point where she stormed out of the interview.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2001-06-06/news/porn-again/4/ |title=Bruce Rushton, "Porn Again", ''The Riverfront Times'', June 6, 2011 |access-date=December 28, 2011 |archive-date=May 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521042547/http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2001-06-06/news/porn-again/4/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was going to be cast in the film ''[[Hardcore (1979 film)|Hardcore]]'', opposite [[George C. Scott]], but the casting director took one look at her and said she was too wholesome to be cast as a porn queen. "The ''Hardcore'' 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.<ref name="Hubner" /> [[Season Hubley]] was cast instead.