Sue Lyon, Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita", Dead at 73

She was 14 when she was cast in the title role of Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film of the Nabokov novel. It remained her best-known credit.

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We just lost Carol Lynley. Has anyone checked on Carroll Baker?

[quote] Sue young

Your attempt to steal my quote from the original thread is pitiable.

R3 - I always get them confused too. The baby boomers are dying off.

What happened to her career?

She made a bigger impression on me in Night of the Iguana.

An old interview with her that I found on youtube.

I wonder if Jeffrey Epstein ever saw this film?

I remembered seeing her on "Love American Style" and "Night Gallery" in the late 60s or early 70s and I was stunned she could go from the starring role in a major motion picture to a nothing part in a serial. The NG part was of a babysitter who is nearly eaten by a monster.

R7 OMG! Was that Dr. Julia Hoffman????

R8 That was quite a find. Thank you.

That Lolita poster is iconic.

We should be hearing from Susan Dey any minute now.

In Memoriam will be on overdrive at the Academy Awards.

I've got an IQ of about 97 and even I can tell that Hollywood Reporter article is horribly written.

The book was great and they did a very good job with the movie. Lyon and Mason worked well together.

R10 I remember her on "Love American Style". One of her lines was "Is that a no-no Peter?" Which somehow became part of my lexicon as a teenager.

Sad for her daughter Nona Harrison.

RIP Sue Lyon.

Yes, R11.

Tuesday Weld should have had the part. She was too old at 18, but enough of an actress to pull it off anyhow.

Listen, R19, pervs gotta perv.

R11. Yes. Grayson Hall was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Night of the Iguana.

She seemed sad snd bitter in the interview at r8 . For the times, she seemed a self medicating societal drop out with a bi-racial baby. She lived like a recluse.

The role she made immortal took its toll.

Don Imus makes TMZ, but not Sue Lyon?

She was in two movies nominated for Oscars. One role is iconic . She died in very late December If a winner like Dorothy Malone can't make the list on The Oscar show they could leave many important people out. TCM is doing something special as I type....

72 is young. The average movie star deaths are around 80.....

So sad. She was so pretty and reminded me a lot of Cam Grant.

She wasn't looking good in recent years.

Cam Grant

[quote] Don Imus makes TMZ, but not Sue Lyon? —Hey, she wasn't Kardashian-adjacent

Was that the same site who laughed at the white boy from [italic]Small Wonder[/italic] when he ended up homeless?

I thought she was a really good actress and excellent as Dolores.

I'm still here!

She’s seems like she was a bit of a rebel.

She was excellent in Lolita.

I think she had a mentally ill daughter whose tweets got posted here on some thread a while back.

Does anyone else remember this?

Someone I guess on another thread named. I assumed she was famous for something else.

An excerpt about her daugher, Nona:

The daughter felt a stigma finally got to her. But she was also abandoned by the father.

"Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nona’s life began as a fairytale. She was the daughter of a famous actress Sue Lyon (Lolita), and a football player (Roland Harrison). Her father was absent for most of her childhood, and being a bi-racial child, she had questions at a very early age about why she looked so different from her blond hair, blue-eyed mother. But Nona’s upbringing was anything but “normal.” Her mother was diagnosed with Bipolar Manic Depressive Disorder before Nona was born. At times, her mother would be bedridden for months and Nona became the caretaker in the home. By age 12, her mother remarried, and her relationship with her mother was never the same. Nona was kicked out of her house and by the age of 13 she was taken to a halfway house. That same year her mother placed her in an insane asylum where she stayed for almost 3 months. That kind of betrayal by her mother, a woman she once idolized, broke Nona’s spirit in a way which would take years to recover from. The author currently lives in Los Angeles..."

From her daughter's facebook page:

"Last Thursday Dec 26 at approximately 11am my mother Sue Lyon passed away in her assisted living facility in North Hollywood.She suffered from declining health for a few years leading up to her passing. In the end, she left this earth with grace, surrounded by people who loved her.At this time, we are privately mourning her loss and have not made any plans for a public memorial. We ask that her fans, whom she loved very much, to respect our privacy at this time and when we decide to have a public memorial, we will reach out with the details."

Too bad she never got around to writing a memoir.

[quote]1973: Sue meets Gary "Cotton" Adamson at the Colorado State Penitentiary, where he was currently serving time for murder and robbery(20-40 years).She worked as a cocktail waitress and lived in a hotel in Denver nearby.

[quote]1974: Sue divorced Cotton after he broke out and committed yet another robbery.

Maybe now someone will write a book.