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Auction History Result 2k0777 LOLITA 1/2sh 1962 Stanley Kubrick, Sue Lyon with heart sunglasses & lollipop! Date Sold 7/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, the classic 1962 Stanley Kubrick English/U.S. tale-of-a-middle-aged-man-obsessed-with-a-teenage-girl melodrama ("How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?"; "aged for the movie due to censorship problems!"; "For persons over 18 years of age"; "Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov based on his novel 'Lolita'"; it is very rare for a writer of a great work of literature to also write the screenplay) starring James Mason (as Professor Humbert Humbert), Shelley Winters (as Charlotte Haze), Peter Sellers ("as Quilty"), Sue Lyon (in the title role; billed as "Introducing Sue Lyon as 'Lolita'"), and Gary Cockrell. Note that there was no way in 1962 that Stanley Kubrick could have had a 12 year old girl play Lolita (as she was in Nabokov's novel). So instead he cast Sue Lyon, who was just shy of 16 when the movie was released, and that certainly changed aspects of the novel. The movie was remade in 1997 with Dominique Swain, who was just shy of 17 when the movie was filmed, and it is a virtual certainty that there will never be a movie based on it with an actual 12 year old girl. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Bert Stern Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: fair to good. The poster was never folded and it has some smudges around the edges and a very minor printing defect that results in blue and pink areas down the left 1/2" of the poster, in the blank border. It also has a small scuff mark in the tip of Lyon's nose, and another one to the right of the flower stem. However, the poster also has a very unusual defect. It was printed with the words "FOR PERSON OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE" in the lower right of the image in the background area. The theater that used this poster painted over that area with a light blue paint and then painted the words "ADULT Entertainment" in darker blue paint over the light blue. If not for this odd defect, the poster would be rated "good to very good", and it is unfolded, which is a big plus. Obviously one could choose to leave the poster as is or have the paint removed, either with or without backing the poster, and we don't know how difficult that would be. So please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept all of the above. Learn More about condition grades 
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