Very Funny Relationship

Can Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot.

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