ABSTRACT
Deep Throat is the best-known, most profitable, and most controversial pornographic film ever made. Filmed in 1972 for about $25,000, the movie had made an estimated $600 million by 2002. The movie created controversy by repeatedly being in court on obscenity charges, which raised important First Amendment free speech issues, and because of the turbulent and tragic life of its star, Linda Lovelace. Contradiction and controversy cloud any attempt to tell the story of Deep Throat completely. Apparently the film was made in Miami Herald, Williams v. Florida, and directed by Gerald Damiano, who had met Linda Lovelace and her husband, Chuck Traynor, at a party. Traynor and Lovelace had made short pornographic films, called "loops," for some time before meeting Damiano. The success of Deep Throat was phenomenal, and it attracted attention from many mainstream media outlets. Lovelace appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson as well as on the covers of Esquire and Playboy. .
