[2] Frequently overhearing sexual gossip, at the salon, it convinced him that pornographic films, made to appeal to couples, would be a commercial success.
Intrigued, Damiano began helping out as he could on the set,[2] and went on to work as a crew member on numerous New York sexploitation films in the late 1960s.
The film is regarded as pioneering, and its success, plus that of The Devil In Miss Jones, which starred Georgina Spelvin, the following year, is credited with helping to launch the modern adult-entertainment industry.
The Devil in Miss Jones racked up box office receipts of $7.7 million for the year, coming in just below the James Bond-franchise entry Live and Let Die and Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon.
Deep Throat grossed $4.6 million for the year, placing it ahead of the prestige picture Sleuth,[3] which featured Oscar-nominated performances by Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
The ads in the entertainment industry trade press touted Miss Aggie for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Damiano) and Best Actress (Deborah Ashira).
[4] He married three times; with his second wife, Barbara Walton, he had two children, Christar and Gerard, Jr.[1][5] At eighteen, Annie Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg) began working at the ticket booth at the Cine-Plaza Theatre in Tucson, Arizona, when Deep Throat (1972) was playing.