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...problem of casting Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provoked more of a stir in Hollywood than there would have been over an open call for dogs after the death of Rin Tin Tin. The late Errol Flynn once offered the services of his teen-age mistress, Beverly Aadland, along with his own for the part of Humbert Humbert, Lolita's tragicomic, middle-aged lover. Director Stanley Kubrick was swamped with letters from U.S. mothers who thought their daughters just right for the part, surveyed 800 budding teen-agers before finally announcing the winner last week. Kubrick's choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Nymphet Found | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

Director Kubrick spotted Sue in a bit part on the Loretta Young Show, had her read for the part with James Mason, who will play Humbert Humbert, decided: "She is a natural actor. Also she has a beautiful figure along ballet lines." Lolita and Sue closely resemble each other. Lolita, at 15, toward the end of the book, stands 5 ft. tall, weighs 90 Ibs.; Sue, at 14, stands 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs 102 Ibs. Sue's picture used to appear in the J. C. Penney mail-order catalogue, for which she modeled junior dresses and bathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Nymphet Found | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...These 80,000 copies equalled the 80,000 copies of U.S. bestseller Lolita printed in its first month two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Life in the Garbage Room | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...theater, and in its center, a shiny fire pole. Clinging to it as if to her last shred of resistance before an engulfing passion is Marilyn, rigged out in black tights. Languorously she slides down the pole, uncoils, arranges her lips in Schlitz position and murmurs, "My name is. Lolita. And I'm not supposed to. Play. With boys." Then she begins to sing My Heart Belongs to Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1960 | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...such a tradition and its emotions, transferred to the Lolita generation, it was also predictable that 1960-5 Tell Laura I Love Her, a collector's item among bad records, would bring a response from Laura. It has come-with the just-released Tell Tommy I Miss Him, whose sales are already climbing toward 50,000 records. Laura lugubriously moans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: The Shady Side of the Street | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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