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Allegation of underage affair with producer. In 2020, Michelle Phillips told journalist Sarah Weinman that producer James B. Harris became emotionally involved with Sue Lyon during her stay in England to shoot Lolita and that Harris had become her first lover when she was 14 years old.
Jun 20, 2022 · Of 800 auditionees, a model and TV actress from Davenport, Iowa was chosen: Sue Lyon. Sophisticated, sunny, and – crucially – appearing far older than her 14 years, she flew to the UK for the...
Harris was even reported to be following Lyon around the country: “James Harris, who has been [Lyon’s] most ardent suitor since the ‘Lolita’ days, still has hopes of recapturing her afections, and is talking of renting a house in Mexico while Sue is in Puerta Vallarte for “Night of the Iguana”.
- James Fenwick
- 2021
Oct 25, 2020 · According to Lyon’s friend Michelle Phillips — yes, the musician — it was there that she began a relationship with Lolita producer James Harris. “If events happened as Phillips described them to me,” Weinman writes, “Lyon would have been 14 to Harris’s 32.” The age of consent in England was 16 then; in California, it was 18.
Dec 28, 2019 · Dec. 27, 2019, 10:01 PM PST. By Variety. LOS ANGELES — Sue Lyon, who was cast in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" at the age of 14, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73. Lyon's longtime...
231. Play trailer 1:00. 2. 1 Video. 99+ Photos. Crime Drama Romance. A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl. Director. Stanley Kubrick. Writers. Vladimir Nabokov. Stanley Kubrick. James B. Harris. Stars. James Mason. Shelley Winters. Sue Lyon. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. RENT/BUY. from $2.69.
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Sue Lyon was 14 at the time of filming and played a 14-year-old, whereas the Lolita of Nabokov's novel is just 12 years old when Humbert Humbert first meets her. Lolita polarized contemporary critics with its theme of child sexual abuse but was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 35th Academy Awards.
