The title of the porno movie refers to the 1956 pop hit by Jim Lowe.  Go to YouTube and Search Jim Lowe Green Door.  I doubt if this will be very helpful to Nabokovians.

In a message dated 3/2/10 9:16:26 PM, jansy@AETERN.US writes:

Stan K-B [to "...a person mentioned to me Hugh G. Well's short-story "The Door in the Wall..."] To "a certain class of moviegoers, Green Door uniquely points to the classic 1972 film, Behind the Green Door! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ My friends tell me it has artistic merits beyond your typical skinflick. Not sure of the idiom’s origin, but it seems to refer to the exotic antics people perform in private, antics you wouldn’t expect from their respectable exterior curtains or doors."


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