How was Linda Lovelace cast in Deep Throat?

Linda Lavin turned it down because she wanted to sing in it and the producers said no.

R1-That was her cover story. Unfortunately Linda wouldn't swallow. It cost her the role of a lifetime. That was why she was such a bitch. She was bitter.

Read her bio or watch the movie "Lovelace." She had the ability to swallow a cock to its base without gagging, and that's when her sleazebag husband got the idea for "Deep Throat." She actually only did a couple of full length hardcore films and a few loops. She lived a very sad life and died tragically.

Great article on Linda and her many reinventions.

verything about the life of Linda Lovelace, who died Monday at age 53, was so, so sad. She had been a prostitute, a drug abuser, and the star of some of the raunchiest porn movies ever made, back when the Mafia filmed them secretly in ratty New York apartments.

She stretched her 15 minutes of fame to 30 by converting to feminism and condemning pornography as "legalized rape," but there was never much conviction in anything she said or published. And yet there was a softness to her, and a gullibility, and a desperate desire to be loved and accepted, making her seem more like a confused girl from Yonkers than the leader of the porn revolution.

She was probably as stunned as everyone else when Deep Throat became the most famous and profitable smut movie in history, especially since it was little more than a down-and-dirty stag film shot in ratty Miami motel rooms. In the context of the tens of thousands of porn movies made both before and after, it ranks pretty close to the bottom in terms of cinematography, acting, entertainment value, and just plain sexual thrills.

But Deep Throat, strange as it may seem, changed America's sexual attitudes more than anything since the first Kinsey Report in 1948.

It altered the lives of everyone associated with it. It super-charged the feminist movement. It gave the Mafia its most lucrative business since Prohibition. And it changed the nation's views of obscenity forever.

We'll never know exactly how much money it made — and continues to make — but estimates have gone as high as $600 million, which would make it one of the most successful motion pictures of any kind in any country in the history of the world.

Nations, like people, have moments when they just need to get drunk and party, and apparently something of the sort was happening in June 1972 when, at almost the same moment, the Watergate burglars broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee and Deep Throat opened at the World Theater in New York City. Deep Throat was not just a dirty movie, it was a cause, and it was so popular that most film critics were afraid to deprecate it for fear of seeming unhip.

Ed McMahon, the sidekick of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, was such a fan of the movie that he showed up with six friends and a case of beer, then stood outside the theater afterward enthusing with the public.

Frank Sinatra was one of the early audience members, along with Vice President Spiro Agnew, Warren Beatty, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, Nora Ephron, Bob Woodward, and Sammy Davis Jr., who grew so enamored of Linda Lovelace that within the year he and his wife would be having group sex with her and her husband.

Deep Throat is finally one of those movies that really can't be explained. It was simply there at a certain crazy time, and it brought out every suppressed urge of a public starved for sensation. And Linda Lovelace was the ill-equipped starry-eyed girl at the center of that vortex.

The movie "Lovelace" is pretty awful, and Amanda Seyfried was horribly miscast in the role. It paints a picture of Linda Lovelace as a wide-eyed innocent who unwittingly ended up in porn.

In reality, she was a not-too-bright girl, plain looking girl who got mixed up with a really corrupt pig named Chuck Traynor who took advantage of her. She was, however, a willing participant in her porn movies, despite what she claimed in her book. There wasn't a fellow crew or cast member who corroborated her stories about having a gun held to her head during her porn scenes. In fact, porn star Eric Edwards, who performed with Lovelace in her first hardcore loop, said that she was an enthusiastic sex performer and that she called him afterward and asked if he wanted to do another one with her. Then there's the whole sex with a dog loop she did.

She was, however, likely physically abused by Traynor. After he dumped her and the industry no longer had a place for her, she tried to create a new narrative as a victim and was courted by the feminist movement. They, too, eventually lost interest in her and she tried to reignite her adult career by posing semi-nude in men's magazines, but by then, the already not so attractive Lovelace was even less attractive and no one paid attention.

She entered into another abusive marriage, had kids, developed serious health problems, was essentially penniless, then died in a car accident in Denver.

A very sad story from start to finish.

Lucy had a previous engagement. This would have overbooked her. I advised her against it.

Stupid question. If you know about Lovelace you know she was forced to do it. The entire premise was born because of her skill.

Damn, R7 beat me.

If you know about Lovelace, you know her stories of being forced into porn are just that - stories.

[quote]Stupid question.

I think this is a parody thread on the "How was Linda Lavin Cast In Alice" thread. Several years ago, DL had some hilarious parody threads. It's a lost art now.

Lovelace and Lavin did resemble each other.

My throat is used for for singing, not slamming dick.