Sue Lyon joined the entertainment industry as a model at the age of 13, and later rose to prominence and won a Golden Globe for playing the title role in the film Lolita.
12 Facts About Sue Lyon
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Suellyn Lyon was born on July 10,1946, in Davenport, Iowa.
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Sue Lyon was the youngest of five children, and her father died before her first birthday.
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Sue Lyon was chosen for the role partly because the film makers had to alter the age of the character to an older adolescent rather than the 12-year-old child Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita.
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Sue Lyon recorded two songs for the film, released on an MGM 45-rpm record.
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Sue Lyon was cast as a seductive teenager in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana, competing for the affections of disgraced preacher Richard Burton against the likes of Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner.
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Sue Lyon played a mission worker in 7 Women, director John Ford's last feature film.
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Sue Lyon played the female lead in the comedy The Flim-Flam Man and had a supporting role in Tony Rome, which starred Frank Sinatra.
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Sue Lyon played the wife of daredevil Evel Knievel in the film Evel Knievel.
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Sue Lyon was the partner of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan during the mid-1960s.
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Sue Lyon's daughter from her marriage with Roland Harrison, Nona Harrison Gomez, was born in Los Angeles in 1972.
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Sue Lyon died in West Hollywood on the morning of December 26,2019, at the age of 73.