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Auction History Result 2j028 LOLITA linen REPRO French 1p 1980s Kubrick, sexy Sue Lyon w/sunglasses & lollipop, Soubie art! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked 1980s REPRODUCTION Folded French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 47" x 63" [119 x 160 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. 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. While this poster rarely turns up at auction, when it is properly identified as a likely reproduction, it still always auctions for at least a few hundred dollars, often more. Finally, note that almost all of the reproductions we have seen have been unfolded, but this poster was folded before linenbacking. Of course, someone might have folded it in order to make it seem more "real", but bear in mind that this poster was folded. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had very minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. It was framed, and the poster was treated like art, and it was attached to a stretcher, with the borders folded over the edges of the stretcher and the excess linen taped to the stretcher, and the tape was later removed, causing much surface paper loss and staining in the edges of the excess linen. Obviously, this will not show if the poster is re-framed, or it could be trimmed off. Learn More about condition grades 
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