Never Forget Me

If I were a producer, I would commission someone to make a film about Sue Lyon. Surely you have seen Lolita by Stanley Kubrick. Sue Lyon is the sulking, whispering, pouting, hula hooping and gum chewing Lolita.

Sue was born in 1946, the last of five children. Her mother was 55 when she gave birth and her father died when she was 10 months old. Tough start. To help bringing the bacon home, Sue started a child model career. At 15, Kubrick spotted her.

No need to mention the fact that her performance is mind blowing, the clothes she's wearing make you green with envy along with her hair (how did they manage to achieve such capillary volume back then?), when her twisted little evil mind makes you happy to be who you are.

Back to Sue's personal life. At 18 she married Hampton Fancher III (cool name) but it didn't last. Two years later, in 1968, she married Afro-American photographer/football coach Roland Harrison. Which was a pretty humongous deal at the time. They had to exile to Spain and eventually divorced.

Her career as an actress went downhill. Apart from John Huston's "The Night Of The Iguana" in 1966 and John Ford's "7 Women" in 1968, she only appears in mediocre films and never lived up to the expectation the audience and media had placed in her. She declared in 98 that "Lolita caused my destruction as a person"

She was working as a cocktail waitress when she met "Cotton" Adamson at the Colorado State Penitentiary, where he was serving time for murder and robbery. She became involved in prison reform and conjugal rights, and divorced the fellow when he got caught for yet another robbery.

I don't think she will ever give anymore interviews, but click here to watch a very insightful and inspiring interview.

So, who's up for making that film?!

Pauline