Teen actress Jenny Maxwell tested for title role.
The distinctive Flemish-Gothic spires of the Delaware & Hudson Building in Albany, New York can be seen in the background, as Humbert drives to Lolita's house near the end of the movie. This would indicate that she was living in or near the town Rensselaer.
The Edgar Allen Poe poem Humbert reads to Lolita is "Ulalume." According to an ear-witness at a Poe recitation of the poem, the author pronounced the title as "You-la-loom."
The famous heart-shaped sunglasses that Lolita wears appear only in publicity photos taken by Bert Stern; Lolita wears cat eye sunglasses in the movie.
The Humbert Humbert role was originally offered to Cary Grant, who turned it down in indignation.
The name of Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram of "Vladimir Nabokov". Quilty's description of Judo matches with her is a direct address of the nature of the relationship between character and creator.
This was the first film that Stanley Kubrick produced independently in England.
Stanley Kubrick:
[bathroom/toilet]
The first Kubrick film in which showing a shot of a bathroom/toilet became his trademark. He would repeat this in every film since until his death in 1999.
Stanley Kubrick:
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Quilty, when he is impersonating a policeman at the hotel.
Stanley Kubrick:
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Humbert vs. Quilty vs. Lolita