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  2. Stanley Kubrick and James Harris acquired the right to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, a novel considered unfilmable, several years after it was first published in September 1955 in Paris by Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, which specialized in pornographic literature.

  3. Nov 13, 2009 · Four years earlier, Kubrick, director of the big-budget Roman epic Spartacus (1960), and his partner, producer James B. Harris, bought the film rights to Nabokov’s masterfully crafted novel.

  4. Jun 6, 2015 · The unused screenplay deviated from the novel and featured a Hitchcock-like cameo for Nabokov, who is referred to as “that nut with a butterfly net.” He later published the complete script in 1974...

  5. Jun 20, 2022 · Lolita would become Stanley Kubrick's first comedy, and after having just completed a for-hire job with the mammoth studio production Spartacus (1960), the director was determined to exact...

  6. In 1958, the Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation, the independent production company of the filmmaking partners James B. Harris and Stanley Kubrick, acquired the filming rights to Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita .

  7. Nov 5, 2000 · By the time Stanley Kubrick decided to make Lolita, the novel had earned the condemnation of the Legion of Decency and the Catholic Church, and it was doubtful that Hollywood, where the Hays Production Code still reigned supreme, would touch it.

  8. By the time I acquired the rights to "Lolita," Stanley had finished on "One-Eyed Jacks." Marlon became very difficult for Stanley to work with and Stanley had never worked with anything except his own approval.