Sue Lyon, who at age 14 played the title character in the 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita, has died at age 73.
Longtime friend Phil Syracopoulos told The New York Times she died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He gave no cause of death.
Director Stanley Kubrick reportedly selected the young and inexperienced Lyon to play Lolita – a 12-year-old in Nabokov’s book who enters into a relationship with a middle-aged literature professor – from among 800 aspirants. After her casting, Nabokov described Lyon as the “perfect nymphet”.
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I like her in The Flim-Flam Man.
jaycat
December 29, 2019, 1:29pm
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She was quite good in Night Of The Iguana, with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner. One of the few Tennessee Williams plays that doesn’t feature a lot of screaming and angst.
ftg
December 29, 2019, 7:00pm
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There’s some discussion of this in the current Lolita thread , including my usual IMDb link.