Sue Lyon, the star of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita,’ has died at the age of 73
New York Times
, noting that she died in Los Angeles Thursday following a period of declining health. No cause of death was provided. The Iowa-born Lyon, then 14 with only a handful of small television roles to her credit, was cast over the 800 young actresses who reportedly auditioned for the role of Dolores Haze in the adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel about a middle-aged college professor smitten by his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
“She’s a one-in-a-million find,” Kubrick said of Lyon at the time; the director first saw the actress during her appearance on. Quoting the character Humbert Humbert in the novel, Nabakov described Lyon as “the perfect nymphet.”— a Bert Stern photograph featuring Lyon wearing heart-shaped sunglasses and consuming a red lollipop — didn’t even appear in Lolita, but remained a lasting image from the 1962 film.
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