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Auction History Result m085 LOLITA linen French REPRO '80s Kubrick, sexy Sue Lyon with sunglasses & lollipop, Soubie art! Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked REPRODUCTION French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 47 1/4" x 62 3/4" [120 x 159 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: Roger Soubie Important Added Info: Note that at some point in the 1980s, a French dealer turned up with a large number of French Lolita one-panel posters that he said were a "warehouse find". They were all unfolded and in wonderful condition, but he claimed they were original to 1962. Most people believe that the dealer had arranged for a run of reproductions (perhaps he had located the original printing plates, because they are of a high quality). There are two versions of the poster, one with full credits, and one with only the image and the title, and we have auctioned them both over the years. This is one of the posters without the credits. We are labeling it as a 1980s REPRODUCTION. Do not bid on it believing it to be a 1962 poster. We saw many of these posters offered in the 1980s, but in the past 20 years, we have almost never seen them offered at all, so it seems that the people who bought them in the 1980s are happy to keep them, whether they are an original, a "re-strike", or a reproduction. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and one of the following is true: either the poster had minor defects, and was well backed, OR it had more significant defects, but they were extremely well restored, OR it had some very minor defects that were not completely restored, and are somewhat noticeable. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster was never folded. It has minor creases around the edges, both on the very edges of the poster and in the excess linen, likely caused by rough handling. But the above defects are minor, and the poster would display great! Learn More about condition grades 
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