Sue Lyon, 73, RIP

I saw Lolita (1962) in high school. They showed the Stanley Kubrick movie at the university. Two women sat behind me whispering loudly about what a pig Humbert Humbert was. Humbert's character seemed more likable than he should have been, so they weren't necessarily stating the obvious.

Sue Lyon has died at 73. Lolita was her first movie role. Her only roles before that were in episodes of Dennis the Menace and The Loretta Young Show. She had almost no experience and held her own against James Mason and Shelley Winters.

Lyon's second movie was Night of the Iguana. She appeared in several decent movies in the '60's but her career went downhill in the '70's. Her last credit was a 1980 monster movie called Alligator. Her career lasted eighteen years.