Joi Lansing

She died of breast cancer. On April 23, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado. Some of these films, particularly "The Web of Love," have gone on to become camp classics. On April 3, 2002, she sustained severe injuries in a car accident in which her sport utility vehicle rolled over. She starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system, which anticipated MTV by decades. 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. Later movie roles included a part in 1967's "Hillbillies in a Haunted House.". According to Boreman's 1980 autobiography Ordeal, the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, prostitution and, of course, pornography.

In 1952, she played a uncredited role in the MGM blockbuster "Singing in the Rain." On television she appeared on "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," "I Love Lucy," and "The Beverly Hillbillies" in a recurring role. Traynor went on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. Her earliest work was as a model, and she began her film career in 1948. 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. A buxom blonde model and actress, Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by contemporaries Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. However, several 8 mm "fetish" loops that still circulate confirm the assertions. Joi Lansing was the screen name of Joyce Wassmansdoff, born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 6, 1928. Over the years she was sometimes accused of having made zoophilia pornography before Deep Throat, a charge that she always denied.

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. After becoming famous she starred in several soft core movies, which were flops. The daughter of a policeman, Boreman made several hard core short features before making Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful porn movie ever. She later became an advocate against pornography and insisted on using the name Boreman.

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.