nymphet

Her fortunes changed in 1963 when she found an image of a nymphet by Balthus to accompany a review of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Lolita.”

“This valley girl slash intellectual slash little nymphet, it was like: Oh, my God, this girl is going to steal this episode.”

The most dangerous creature of all is the nymphet, the femme fatale, the siren who will lead a good man to ruin, a common archetype threaded throughout art, music and literature.

Lyon was reportedly selected to play the character Dolores Haze from a cast of 800, with Kubrick describing her as the "perfect nymphet."

After her casting, Nabokov described Lyon as the “perfect nymphet”.