Posted on 12/27/2019 6:21:25 PM PST by Borges
Girls with adult looking faces at an early age often don’t grow up to be attractive as adults.
The opposite was Shirley Temple. As a little girl she looked like one, but grew up to be stunningly beautiful in her twenties. However, she had long since quit her acting career.
As had Sue Lyon, give her credit.
RIP.. loved her in “Night of the Iguana”
I had a friend who was set up to date her right after she filmed lolita. Took her to the school dance. His mom knew her mom. Trying to normalize her life.
Well, that’s two celebs down and one to go...
Imus, Lyon and....?
And look where we are now in society. We can’t take attraction of men to women out of the species for that’s what sustains us and is natural us but I will never understand pedophilia.
“Audiences could accept a letch going after a 16-year old Sue Lyon (who was clearly through puberty), but wouldve been reviled if Kubrick had made her a young-looking child of 12.”
Look at what happened to Jerry Lee Lewis’ career after it was exposed that he married his 13 year-old cousin.
Whats with this recent trend to refer to women as actors
Ive noticed that too.
Richard Burton signed to do Night of the Iguana in Puerto Vallarta with Ava Gardner and sue Lyons. Liz Taylor was anticipating trouble with her cockhound husband.
Burton had been pleased a house during the filming. Liz bought the house across the street and had a walkway built between to two second floor decks. Can still see the houses on a city tour there.
I saw her in THE FLIM-FLAM MAN. She was HOT! She was the same age as I am. Now I really feel OLD!
You thought Lolita was a comedy?
LEASED
Yup, though that was a double-whammy for “offensiveness.” Both 13 AND his first cousin’s daughter.
The Kubrick version was a comedy. The 1997 Adrian Lyne version, which I prefer, is a drama.
That “Lolita” has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is pretty disgusting, considering it’s main feature is pedophilia. How does a parent allow a 14 year old to appear in a movie like that? No telling how that girl was abused by directors, producers, etc. I think of the movie producer scene in “The
Godfather”, and, yeah, that’s fiction, but we know darned well that a large number of child actors were abused. It’s sickening, and one reason that anyone who watches that kind of crap is committing great evil. Now let’s hear it from everyone who thinks she was a little hottie. She was a CHILD.
I’m Surprised
No one has named
The “Other” Actor.
Up until about one hundred years ago many women married when in their early teens. Waiting until after high school age to marry is a fairly recent development.
The novel is an American classic and not remotely pornographic. This film was made in 1961. There is really nothing untoward in it.
Agreed,
and I can’t remember
Peter Sellers Characters’
Name.
THE FLIM-FLAM MAN one of my favorite films. Kind of a modern take on the Herman Melville book “Confidence”.
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