Nymphets in the movies

[Paul Mackin]

On the always p-relevant nymphet question here's an example of how 
Hollywood was at one time much less guarded on the subject of
nymphetry. It was in a Jimmy Stewart/Maureen O'Hara movie on television
this afternoon. The situation is quite ordinary, only O'Hara's
slighly garbled reference to Nabakov's heroine is unexpected.  Anyway, 
Jimmy, the father of many girl children, is driven to distraction by
the trouble the kids cause him. So, away from his own daughters on a 
beach vacation with Maureen (the mom character), Jimmy meets up with a 
beauteous, nubile and slightly rapacious young stranger (in fairness,
not really a nymphet). Later, Maureen asks, a little bitingly, what the
meeting was about. Jimmy replies that for gosh sakes she's only a girl, 
to which Maureen counters: that was what Humbert Humbert said about Miss 
Goody-two-shoes.
	
	
			P.