"Lolita" star dead at 73

[SfanGoch]

Sue Lyon, star of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita’ in 1962, dies at 73

[Lunajammer]

Yeah, she was magnetic and a good choice for that movie. The plot itself is a little disturbing, but also insightful about how an otherwise well meaning man can be led so astray so blindly.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Lunajammer

[ChrisBcritter]

Also starred in The Flim-Flam Man (it was her Valiant that got stolen):

"They've stolen mah car! Ah'm gonna call Daddy!"

And she was a biker chick in the unforgettable Smashup on Interstate 5: 

 

[Lunajammer]

As Linda Knievel.

 

[Mike999]

If you need a good post-holiday read, try "The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World" by Sarah Weinman.

It's a great combination of a true-crime story and a history of how Nabokov wrote the novel.  Nabokov always denied that real life had anything to do with "Lolita" (or any of his fiction).  But he dropped a mention of the Sally Horner case right into "Lolita," so go figure.

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Lolita-Kidnapping-Horner-Scandalized/dp/0062661922