Well, they didn't. This week, Jamie dives into the backstory to Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita, interviews one of the world's foremost Kubrick scholars, examines Vladimir Nabokov's involvement and how the first Lolita, Sue Lyon, was treated on set and in media.
[Trigger warning: this podcast contains discussion of child sex abuse, pedophillia and the plot of the story Lolita.]
Nabokov's script for Lolita: https://www.openculture.com/2014/06/vladimir-nabokovs-script-for-stanley-kubricks-lolita.html
James B. Harris allegations: https://airmail.news/issues/2020-10-24/the-dark-side-of-lolita
James Fenwick's Stanley Kubrick Produces: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/stanley-kubrick-produces/9781978814875
Haley Mills and Lolita: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hayley-mills_b_881441
Chasing Lolita by Graham Vickers: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/chasing-lolita-products-9781556526824.php
Lucia Wiliams: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucia_Williams
Lindsay Ellis's "The Whole Plate: Framing Megan Fox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKyrUMUervU
Kubrick on Lolita as a love story: http://www.archiviokubrick.it/english/words/interviews/1962southern.html
More Information on the Hays Code: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189#:
Sue Lyon in 1962: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHz-N6bJ3I
Sue Lyon in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLtXhPYxoM
Charlie Chaplin's history of CSA and abuse: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/07/chap-j07.html
Errol Flynn and child sex abuse: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/09/errol-flynn-toronto-film-festival
The poster for Baby Doll, 1956: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51I-84I48DL._AC_.jpg
Carroll Baker interview from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenlopez/2019/12/09/carroll-baker-on-not-being-hollywoods-baby-doll-63-years-later/?sh=2ead498f27d8
Shelley Duvall and Stanley Kubrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qRuo1lbEIU
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