Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), more commonly referred to by her previous stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat. Although the film was an enormous success at the time, it was later alleged that Boreman's abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, had threatened and coerced her into performance. Boreman described what went on behind the scenes in her autobiography Ordeal. She later became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.
[in 1975 interview with Eric Danville] When I was with [David Winters] I had an awesome time. I met a lot of people and had a lot of fun at that point. I went to see my first play. I saw Richard Chamberlain in '"Cyrano De Bergerac", I saw "Grease" in Manhattan. I saw the Alvin Ailey Dancers. I became cultured, I guess. I'd never been cultured.
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On January 31, 1974, she was arrested in the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, for possession of cocaine and amphetamines.
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Second daughter and third child of John J. Boreman (1917-2011).
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Third daughter and fourth child of Dorothy Elizabeth Boreman (1914-1999).
Dressed up as a Southern belle in virgin-white, Lovelace arrived at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a horse-drawn carriage on Oscar night, April 2, 1974. Her attempt to cash in on the publicity generated by the Academy Awards was thwarted when Paul Newman, husband of Best Actress nominee Joanne Woodward, arrived at the same time and attracted the attention of press photographers.
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Linda's nickname in high school was "Miss Holy Holy," because she kept her dates at a safe distance.
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Gerard Damiano, director of Deep Throat (1972), gave Linda Boreman her professional name of "Linda Lovelace". This is because he wanted "LL" initials to represent what he considered the new sex symbol of the 1970s, just as "MM" (Marilyn Monroe) and "BB" (Brigitte Bardot) represented the sex symbols of the '50s.
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In her autobiography "Ordeal" and in the TV program E! True Hollywood Story: Linda Lovelace (2000), she revealed that she got pregnant when she was 19 and gave birth to a son when she was 20 years old, and that her mother put him up for adoption. It wasn't the first or last time that an unwed teenager would have a baby in her family, since her mother gave birth to her half-sister Barbara Boreman when she was 18, and Linda's daughter Lindsay Marchiano gave birth to a son when she was 17.
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Was involved in a bad car accident on April 3, 2002, in Denver, Colorado, that left her with massive trauma and internal injuries and on life support. She was taken off life support by her family on April 22, 2002, and died shortly after. Her ex-husband Larry Marchiano and two adult children were at the hospital when she died.
Following the end of their marriage, Chuck Traynor married and helped guide the career of Marilyn Chambers (the 1970s' second most famous adult film star).
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Was the adult film industry's first star to become a household name, and later became one of that industry's most outspoken critics.
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Made many claims about the adult film industry and her ex-husband/manager Chuck Traynor in her books, including that she was forced to perform legal and illegal sex acts at gunpoint.
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Born 6:15 am-EST
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Linda Lovelace for President
1975
Linda Lovelace
Sexual Ecstasy of the Macumba
1974
Deep Throat Part II
1974
Nurse Lovelace
Deep Throat
1972
Linda Lovelace
The Foot
1972
Short uncredited
Sex for Sale
1971
Short uncredited
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lovelace
2013
inspired by the life story of
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Adults Only: The Secret History of the Other Hollywood
2001
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
E! True Hollywood Story
2000
TV Series documentary
Herself
Sin on Saturday
1982
TV Series
Herself
Xpose
1982
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Saturday Night at the Mill
1981
TV Series
Herself
Today
1980
TV Series
Herself
Donahue
1980
TV Series
Herself
The 46th Annual Academy Awards
1974
TV Special
Herself - Guest (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1973
TV Series
Herself
Piss Orgy
1971
Short
Herself
Dog 2
1971
Short
Herself
Dog Fucker
1971
Short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Seventies
2015
TV Series documentary
Herself - Adult Film Actor
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
2015
TV Special documentary
Linda Lovelace (uncredited)
Porn: Business of Pleasure
2009
TV Movie documentary
Deeper Throat
2009
TV Series
Herself
70's Fever
2008
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Deep Vote: The Oral History of 'Linda Lovelace for President'
2008
Video documentary short
Herself
Extreme Sleaze Showcase: 8mm Madness Part V
2007
Video
Threesome Girl (segment "Pee on Linda") / Girl in Bed (segment "Foot") (uncredited)