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They said she was going to be the next Grace Kelly, with her long blonde curls and big blue eyes and ability to work the lens opposite stars like Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley. In fact, in the 1957 film Loving You, the rising actress gave the King his very first on-screen kiss—she blushed and then he blushed and “the director kept yelling ‘cut!’ ” And even though she didn’t date the heartthrob, when she suddenly disappeared from the limelight a few years later, rumors were that she’d fled Hollywood after bearing the icon’s love child.  
 “Nothing could have been further from the truth,” says Mother Dolores Hart, 80, more than five decades later from her office in the Abbey of Regina Laudis, an enclosed Benedictine monastery and working farm in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Her story was the subject of an Oscar-nominated short film, God Is the Bigger Elvis, released in 2012; now, as the 2018 Met Gala approaches, with its theme of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” who better to recall the push and pull between transcendent impulses and beaut

“Monastic life is always meant to go into the heart of the human experience.”


Mother Dolores Hart

2016 marked the Golden Jubilee Year of Mother Dolores Hart who celebrated 50 years of Vowed life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis. On Saturday, September 17th, family, friends and colleagues joined the monastic community in celebration.
See the galleries and read more about Mother Dolores Hart's Jubilee celebration.

Mother Dolores' acclaimed autobiography The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows was released in 2013 and as of 2015 is in its third printing. Learn more about Mother Dolores' Autobiography.

Dolores Hart began her career as an actress when she was only 19 years old, making her screen debut in 1957 as Elvis' sweetheart in Loving You. Dolores became an overnight success story and starred with Elvis again in King Creole the following year in 1958. She then took on Broadway, starring in The Pleasure of His Company in 1959, for which she won a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress. Further movie hits followed

Dolores Hart

American nun and former actress (born 1938)

Mother

Dolores Hart

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Dolores Hart in 1959

Born

Dolores Hicks


(1938-10-20) October 20, 1938 (age 86)

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Alma materMarymount College
Years active1963–present (religious)
1957–1963 (actress)

Dolores Hart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman CatholicBenedictine nun and former actress. Following her movie debut with Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957), she made 10 films in five years, including Wild Is the Wind (1957), King Creole (1958), and Where the Boys Are (1960).

At the height of her career, Hart left acting to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudismonastery in Connecticut.[1][2]

Background

Hart was born Dolores Hicks in Chicago on October 20, 1938.[3] She was the only child of actor Bert Hicks and Harriett Hicks. Her uncle (through marriage) was tenor and actor Mario Lanza. Hart's father followed movie offers and moved his family from Chicago to Hollywood. Hart decided

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