June 13, 1962 - Opening today is “Lolita,” a psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote the screenplay. The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes sexually infatuated with Dolores Haze (nicknamed "Lolita"), a young adolescent girl, with disastrous results. It stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon (pictured) as Lolita.
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