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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Actor, Screen Story, Set Designer, Visual Effects Supervisor Born: November 30, 1943 in Stockton, CA Death: July 12, 2007 in Petaluma, CA Biography:Whatever one's personal feelings about him, Jim Mitchell (along with his brother Art) did much to spearhead the "mainstreaming" of adult films in the early '70s. The Mitchells began by developing and launching a wildly successful pornographic stage show and movie house in San Francisco circa 1969; they later moved into feature films, and created a series of historically relevant hardcore pictures, including Behind the Green Door (1972) and Resurrection of Eve (1973). Those first two films attained incredible popularity, thanks in no small part to the enlistment of former "Ivory Snow Girl" Marilyn Chambers in the lead role of each. The Mitchells' strategy involved combining hardcore sex footage with a "dreamlike," art film ambience, thus reeling in a much larger demographic; they also set their films up in such a way that the movies catered expressly to both male and female viewers. Behind the Green... Full Biography
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