| James Mason | Prof. Humbert Humbert |
| Shelley Winters | Prof. Humbert Humbert |
| Sue Lyon | Lolita |
| Peter Sellers | Clare Quilty |
| Marianne Stone | Vivian Darkbloom |
| Diana Decker | Jean Farlow |
With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov's controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert is a European professor who relocates to an American suburb, renting a room from lonely widow Charlotte Haze . Humbert marries Charlotte, but only to nurture his obsession with her comely teenage daughter, Lolita . After Charlotte's sudden death, Humbert has Lolita all to himself -- or does he?