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Auction History Result 5z211 LOLITA linen 1sh '62 Stanley Kubrick, sexy Sue Lyon with heart sunglasses & lollipop! Date Sold 7/14/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (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 we have seen two versions of the one-sheet, one with a "rating" of "For persons over 18 years of age" and one without a rating. Except for the "rating", the posters are the same and both were printed for the first release of the film. The version without a "rating" may be an international poster (printed in the U.S. but intended to be used outside the U.S.), but we are not certain. Condition: good. The poster had paper loss at each crossfold and fine surface paper loss on parts of some foldlines (typical of high-gloss posters of this period). There was a 3" vertical tear to the left of the first "L" in "LOLITA" in the title. There were some pinholes and tears around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above (and any restorer could likely touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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