[2] Following the dissolution of her marriage, Haven moved to San Francisco, where she worked early on as a nurse's aide, exotic dancer, massage parlor girl and eventually as a stripper.
[3] She was introduced to the sex industry through a role in a film called Lady Freaks in 1973 starring Holiday.
Annette Haven went on to work in nearly 100 porn movies, including Desires Within Young Girls (1977), Barbara Broadcast (1977), A Coming of Angels (1977), Obsessed (1977), Sex World (1977), Dracula Sucks (aka Lust At First Bite) (1978), Maraschino Cherry (1978), Charli (1981) and The Grafenberg Spot (1985).
Subsequently, she was considered to play the lead female role in Body Double, but the role went to Melanie Griffith because Brian De Palma believed she gave a better dramatic screen test than Haven.
[4] Before filming Body Double De Palma commented, "I'm already thinking of casting.