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The Mitchell brothers auditioned virtually every newcomer who responded to their advertisements which appeared in Variety and Bay Area sex tabloids. They hired Sharon McNight, a cabaret singer and frequent movie collaborator, to direct the picture and, uncharacteristically, chose to cast the film exclusively with amateur performers, despite the availability of such adult-industry stars as Lady Ashley Liberty, who had just concluded an engagement at New York Citys Show World Center. In 1985, the brothers made the sequel to Behind the Green Door that had been long-awaited - and often postponed. The brothers were inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. The Mitchell brothers were the first to transfer film titles to videotape and market them via ads in national sex magazines. One of their last big-budget movies was The Grafenberg Spot 1985, featuring Traci Lords, who had entered the adult-video industry underaged using fake identification. Mamas 1976, The Autobiography of a Flea 1976, Never a Tender Moment 1979, and Beyond De Sade 1979. The Mitchells rode the porno chic wave, using some of their Green Door profits to produce fairly lavish hardcore movies including Resurrection of Eve in 1973, Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days in 1975, C.B. The movie, produced for $60.000, grossed over $25 million. They became incorporated as Cinema 7 headquartered in the managers offices at the OFarrell Theatre, and in 1972 produced one of the worlds first famous feature-length pornographic movies, Behind the Green Door, starring an unknown Ivory Snow girl Marilyn Chambers in her porn debut. They would open other X-rated movie houses in California over the years, spending much time in court and money on lawyers to stay open as indignant locals and officials repeatedly tried to shut them down. The Mitchells opened the OFarrell Theatre on the July 4, 1969, and were confronted almost immediately by the authorities. Jim Mitchell once quipped, "The only Art in is my brother." They also rented a larger facility at 991 Tennessee Street in which to shoot some of their films nevertheless, even their fans conceded that the Mitchells movies ranged in quality from mediocre to atrocious. In 1969, with the help of Arties Ivy League-educated wife Meredith Bradford, the brothers fulfilled their ambitions by leasing and renovating a dilapidated two-story building at 895 OFarrell Street, which they converted into the OFarrell Theatre, a movie theater with a makeshift film studio upstairs.