"Lo-li-Ta . " Although almost six decades have passed since its premiere, in 1962 - in Spain it was necessary to wait until 1971, only in some art and rehearsal rooms in Madrid and Barcelona - Sue Lyon , who died on Thursday at age 73 due to unknown causes, It will always be that 15-year-old teenager, three more than in Vladimir Nabokov's novel, which drove a mature James Mason in Lolita , from Stanley Kubrick , one of the most controversial films of the 60s.

Impossible not to remember it with those heart-shaped sunglasses, in a bikini next to the pool, sucking lollipop, as the film was promoted, or leaving to paint the toenails, or simply dancing with the hula hoop , like any other Princess of the suburbs. Nabokov, with whom Kubrick initially counted for the script, approved the election and described it as "the perfect nymph . " A masterpiece of cinema and literature, Lolita is still causing controversies today. For Sue Lyon, which Kubrick discovered in an episode of The Loretta Young show , it was the beginning of the end.

Although, already a little more grown-up, he chained roles in important films, such as Seven Women ( John Ford , 1966), The Night of the Iguana ( John Huston , 1964), A Fabulous Rascal ( Irvin Kershner , 1967) or Golden Hampa ( Gordon Douglas , 1967), there is no doubt that his career, like his life, was marked by that role, as iconic as uncomfortable and disturbing.

The husbands followed each other almost faster than the shootings. He married up to five times. Already in 1963 with the actor of teleseries and future scriptwriter of Blade Runner Hampton Fancher III , and in 1971 with the African-American photographer Roland Harrison : Lolita had married a black man! The scandal was such that the couple ended up arriving in Spain. During his stay, he starred in A drop of blood to die loving , an attempt by Spanish Mechanic Orange directed by Eloy de la Iglesia , and Tarot , a minor drama, between erotic and fatalist, directed by José María Forqué from a script by Rafael Azcona .

Manic depressive "because of Hollywood"

Already without a husband and back to the United States, he fell in love with nothing less than a convict for robbery and murder Cotton Adamson , whom he met visiting a friend in jail. He married again in the hope of reforming him, but he soon returned to the streets, and they also divorced. The one that had become known, dyed blonde and pushed by her ambitious mother, in JC Penney catalogs, with the idea of ​​becoming another Bride of America , seemed determined to achieve the opposite.

Already in decline, he added some more role in film and television, and ended up finishing his battered career with a small intervention in Alligator: the beast under the asphalt ( Lewis Teague , 1980), a film starring the late Robert Forster , whose title He already says it all. Sue Lyon disappeared from public life. No more appearances or interviews.

With mental problems since adolescence, she was diagnosed as a manic depressive, and underwent severe lithium treatments. He said goodbye, saying that Hollywood was to blame for everything. On her most famous character, she commented that she was "neurotic and pathetic, and only cares about herself. I feel sorry." Apparently, she didn't do much better.

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