During her 20-year career in adult films, she appeared in over 600 movies, including Barbara Broadcast, and directed 29 movies. During her years in the industry, Mitchell admits to being a heroin addict for 16 of them. Mitchell also contracted herpes, chlamydia, hepatitis, and trichomoniasis. Mitchell worked with Golden Age production companies such as AVC, Caballero Home Video, Essex Video, Gourmet Video Collection, Leisure Time Entertainment, VCA Pictures, VCX, and the Zane Entertainment Group as well as contemporary studios such as Vivid Entertainment. Roughly a quarter of her appearances were non-sex roles, and she also had small roles in mainstream films, such as Night of the Juggler (1980) and Maniac (1980).