Word: humberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl-children [are] nymphets," wrote Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita. Few indeed have the "fey grace... the slenderness of a downy limb" and other nascent charms so dear to a Humbert Humbert. Edward Albee, who is staging a drama based on the novel, chose Blanche Baker over hundreds of preteens to play eleven-year-old Lo to Donald Sutherland's fortyish Humbert. Blanche is 24, but well qualified. She was virtually born for the role: her mother, Carroll Baker, won stardom 24 years ago as the sensuous heroine of Baby Doll. As for Blanche's advanced age, she says...