She also insisted that each actor get tested for venereal disease. But she was turned on by the fantasy of the story and decided to take a chance, under the condition that she receive a hefty salary and 10 percent of the film's gross.
Chambers was highly dubious about accepting a role in a pornographic film, fearing it might ruin her chances at breaking into the mainstream. They invited her upstairs to their offices and told her the film's plot. She was about to leave when producers Artie and Jim Mitchell noticed her resemblance to Cybill Shepherd. She rushed to the audition only to find it was for a pornographic film, which was to be called Behind the Green Door. In 1972, she saw an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle for a casting call for what was billed as a "major motion picture". Ĭhambers sought work in theater and dance groups in San Francisco to no avail. "I moved to San Francisco, thinking it was the entertainment capital of the world, which indeed, it is not," she said. In 1970, she moved from Westport to San Francisco, where she held several jobs that included topless model and bottomless dancer.
Cunningham's Together (1971), in which she appeared nude. After that, she did not receive any roles except for a low-budget film, writer-director-producer Sean S. Upon the release of The Owl and the Pussycat, Chambers was sent to Los Angeles and San Francisco on a promotional tour. During her early career as a model, her most prominent job was as the "Ivory Soap girl" on the Ivory Snow soap flake box, posing as a mother holding a baby under the tag line "99 & 44/100% pure". While in high school, she landed some modeling assignments and a small role in the film The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), in which Chambers was credited as Evelyn Lang. "And then I'd take the train into the city to go to auditions".
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"When I was about 16, I learned how to write my mother’s name on notes to get out of school", she said. My mother always told me I was a show-off". "I was always a performer, a junior Olympic diver, a junior Olympic gymnast. "Ever since I was a little kid, I've always wanted to be an actress," Chambers said in 1997. Her father tried to discourage her from pursuing a modeling career, citing brutal competition. Chambers attended Burr Farms Elementary School, Hillspoint Elementary School, Long Lots Junior High School, and Staples High School where she graduated in 1970. She was the youngest of three children, a brother, Bill Briggs (keyboardist for 1960s Boston band The Remains), and a sister, Jann Smith. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. 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.
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