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Jim Mitchell, who, with his brother, Artie, nudged pornography closer to the mainstream with their widely seen 1972 movie Behind the Green Door, then was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Artie in 1991, died on July 12 at his ranch near Petaluma, Calif. He was 63.
His death was confirmed by Higgins Chapel, a funeral home in Antioch, Calif., where services for Mr. Mitchell were to be held today. No cause was given.
The brothers spent $60,000 to make Behind the Green Door, which made more than $25 million. It showed at the Cannes Film Festival, received remarkably favorable reviews for a pornography film, and made a cult star of Marilyn Chambers, whose photograph had just appeared on the Ivory Snow box cuddling a baby.
