TCM’s showing Lolita tonight.
“I have been offered by Warner Bros to play in the movie of Lolita. Now I have refused to read Lolita for a long time, so at last I have been forced to try. It is well written in a curious way but exceedingly pornographic and quite disgusting. I cannot see myself playing a long, lecherous love story with a little girl of twelve. An unsavoury project if ever there was one.”
-Noel Coward, 26 April 1959
I can see Noel playing the little girl of twelve to perfection, however — simply tooooo perfection.
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