The Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (mostly, 1969 – 1984) in commercial American pornography that began in 1969 with the film Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol, and, more freely, in 1970, with the film Mona, produced by Bill Osco. These films were the first adult erotic films depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical release in the United States. Both influenced the making, in 1972, of films like Deep Throat, starring Linda Lovelace and directed by Gerard Damiano, The Devil in Miss Jones, also directed by Damiano, Behind the Green Door, starring Marilyn Chambers, directed by Artie and Jim Mitchell, and later, in 1976, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, directed by Radley Metzger, and considered, by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the 'Golden Age'.