Linda Lovelace

On April 23, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado.
. On April 3, 2002, she sustained severe injuries in a car accident in which her sport utility vehicle rolled over. Many consider her the leading Broadway musical performer of the twentieth century with her signature song being There's No Business Like Show Business. Boreman testified before congressional committees investigating pornography and also gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, always decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices of the pornography industry. Her rendition of "I Got Rhythm" in the show was popular, and by the late 1930s she had become the first lady of the Broadway musical stage. According to Boreman's 1980 autobiography Ordeal, the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, prostitution and, of course, pornography. She had already been engaged for Girl Crazy, a musical with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.

Traynor went on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. She eventually became a full time vaudeville performer, and played the pinnacle of vaudeville, the Palace Theater in New York City. For many years after the film debuted, Boreman claimed that her husband, whom she divorced in 1973, had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. She began singing while working as a secretary. However, several 8 mm "fetish" loops that still circulate confirm the assertions. She was known for her powerful alto voice, exact enunciation, and accurate pitch. Because stage singers performed without microphones when she began singing professionally, she had great advantages in show business. Over the years she was sometimes accused of having made zoophilia pornography before Deep Throat, a charge that she always denied. Merman was married and divorced four times.

Boreman maintained that she herself was not paid for her work in Deep Throat and that her husband, Chuck Traynor, received only $1,250 (1972 US dollars) for it even though the film would eventually gross an estimated $600 million. She was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, in Astoria, Queens, New York, of a German Lutheran father and Scottish Presbyterian mother, although many people assumed she was Jewish. After becoming famous she starred in several soft core movies, which were flops. Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her strident voice and comic acting. The daughter of a policeman, Boreman made several hard core short features before making Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful porn movie ever. 1985 Judy Garland: The Concert Years (archival footage from The Judy Garland Show). She later became an advocate against pornography and insisted on using the name Boreman. 1978 A Special Sesame Street Christmas.

Linda Boreman (January 10, 1949 - April 23, 2002) became famous as a pornographic actress under the stage name Linda Lovelace in the 1972 film Deep Throat. 1977 The Love Boat (5 episodes). 1976 The Muppet Show. 1975 Match Game PM. 1972 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin.

1970 Evening at Pops. 1967 The Carol Burnett Show. 1967 That Girl. 1967 Annie Get Your Gun.

1966 Batman (as recurring character "Lola Lasagne"). 1965 An Evening with Ethel Merman. 1963 The Judy Garland Show (2 appearances). 1962 The Lucille Ball Show (2 appearances).

1961 Merman on Broadway. 1958 Panama Hattie. 1954 Anything Goes. 1954 There's No Business Like Show Business.

1953 The Ford 50th Anniversary Show. 1981 Something a Little Less Serious. 1980 Airplane!. 1979 Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.

1978 A Salute to American Imagination. 1976 Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood. 1971 Journey Back to Oz (voice). 1968 Around the World of Mike Todd.

1967 Tarzan and the Mountains of the Moon. 1965 The Art of Love. 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. 1954 There's No Business Like Show Business.

1953 Call Me Madam. 1943 Stage Door Canteen. 1938 Straight, Place and Show. 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band.

1938 Happy Landing. 1936 Anything Goes. 1936 Strike Me Pink. 1936 The Big Broadcast of 1936.

Kid Millions. 1934. 1934 We're Not Dressing. 1933 Be Like Me.

1933 Song Shopping. 1932 Ireno. 1932 Old Man Blues. 1932 Time on My Hands.

1932 You Try Somebody Else. 1932 Let Me Call You Sweetheart. 1931 Roaming. 1931 The Devil Sea.

1930 The Cave Club. 1930 Follow the Leader. 1977 Together on Broadway (Mary Martin & Ethel Merman). 1975 A Gala Tribute to Joshua Logan.

1966 Annie Get Your Gun. 1966 Hello, Dolly! (replacement). 1959 Gypsy. 1956 Happy Hunting.

1950 Call Me Madam. 1946 Annie Get Your Gun. 1944 Sadie Thompson (replaced in previews). 1943 Something for the Boys.

1940 Panama Hattie. 1939 Du Barry Was a Lady. 1939 Stars In Your Eyes. 1936 Red, Hot and Blue.

1934 Anything Goes. 1932 Take a Chance. 1931 George White's Scandals. 1930 Girl Crazy.

Merman filed for divorced after 32 days.). Ernest Borgnine (Actor, in 1964. Robert Six (Airline executive, 1953-1960). Divorced in 1952.).

The couple had two children. Robert Levitt (Newspaper executive. Sam Neuman (a marriage of convenience). Bill Smith (Theatrical agent.).