'Lolita' star Sue Lyon dies at 73

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Source: NBC

Sue Lyon, who was cast in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" at the age of 14, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.

Lyon's longtime friend Phil Syracopoulos told the New York Times she had been experiencing poor health for some time.

Lyon's acting career lasted from 1959 to 1980, with her most significant role as the title character in the 1962 Kubrick film based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel about a middle-aged man who becomes sexually obsessed with a young girl. Lyon earned the part over 800 girls that auditioned; Nabokov described her as "the perfect nymphet."

While Nabokov's 1955 novel was seen as scandalous, the film was less so due in part to the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code.

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[left-of-center2012]

1. I read the book decades ago

Never saw the movie.

[Silver1]

2. A spiral into the twisted sexual fantasies of a depraved mind.

It pissed me off when I first saw it as a college student. And it pissed me off throughout my working life when I ran into sh*itheads like that character in the real world.

Times have changed! My kids have it better.

[Midnight Writer]

3. I was in love with Sue Lyon in the Sixties. Not a perv, she was older than me.

[NurseJackie]

4. I JUST SAW her the other night on TV...

I JUST SAW her the other night on TV... she was in a "Night Gallery" short-story segment... it was the episode where she played the babysitter coming to Dracula's house.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I just saw her in Night of the Iguana a few weeks ago.

Good cast!

[Midwestern Democrat]

5. She certainly had an auspicious start to her career - before the age of 21, his first three films

were directed by Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, and John Ford - that's certainly a very grand way to start out.

[keithbvadu2]

7. She has been too old for Trump for many decades.

She has been too old for Trump for many decades.

The sexy star was Shelley Winters.

[Sloumeau]

8. "Lolita" wasn't just about perversion, it was about obsession.

If you see the film, you will notice that the two older men in the film try to possess and control Lolita. In the end, she ends up with a guy much more her age who wants to live a normal husband and wife life with her, which seems to be what she wants. I take the lesson from this film that life isn't supposed to be about perversion or obsession, or about owning, controlling, or possessing someone. Life is supposed to be about humans loving each other and making each other happy.