American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun and former actress
Mother
Dolores Hart
OSB
Hart in 1959
Born
Dolores Hicks
(1938-10-20) October 20, 1938 (age 85)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater
Marymount College
Years active
1963–present (religious) 1957–1963 (actress)
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine 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 Laudis monastery in Connecticut.[1][2]
^"Mother Dolores Hart". Abbey of Regina Laudis. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
^Ephriam Katz, The Film Encyclopedia, Third Edition, HarperCollins, 1998, p.598
DoloresHart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun and former actress. Following her movie debut...
CinemaScope comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Connie Francis, DoloresHart, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, and Frank...
God Is the Bigger Elvis is a 2011 documentary film about actress DoloresHart, who abandoned her successful career at the age of 24 to become a Benedictine...
Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, DoloresHart, Dean Jagger, and Vic Morrow, and follows a nineteen-year-old (Presley)...
Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where the actress DoloresHart, her friend since the early 1960s, had become a nun and ultimately prioress...
Raymond Palmer Interviews Stephen Boyd Hart, Dolores. The Ear of the Heart, 2013 "Stephen Boyd to Visit DoloresHart, now Nun" Milwaukee Sentinel, 7 February...
film stars Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Jackie Coogan, DoloresHart, and Maureen Stapleton in her first film role. Stapleton was nominated...
by Richard Matheson A Summer World (1961) – for 20th Century Fox with DoloresHart and Bradford Dillman about a high school student who falls for an older...
1961 American black-and-white comedy heist film starring Robert Wagner, DoloresHart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs and Frank Gorshin. It was...
BOYS ARE (1960): Iconic Spring Break Movie, Starring Connie Francis, DoloresHart, Yvette Mimieux". EmanuelLevy.com. Emanuel Levy – Cinema 24/7. Retrieved...
Daughter Died From Measles". Newsweek. Retrieved 5 May 2020. Mother DoloresHart, O.S.B. & Richard DeNeut, The Ear of the Heart, An Actress' Journey from...
who also directed. Peppard played the boyfriend who wants to marry DoloresHart who was Ritchard's daughter; The New York Times called Peppard "admirable"...
Advocate in 2015. At one time, Holliman dated actresses Jane Fonda and DoloresHart. In addition to his Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion...
Lisa (1962 film) or The Inspector, a drama starring Stephen Boyd and DoloresHart Lisa (1990 film), a crime thriller film starring Staci Keanan and Cheryl...
was to lie in bed and watch television and eat and talk all night..." DoloresHart was the female love interest from Elvis's second and fourth movies, and...
feeling: TV's uneasy relationship with therapy". Financial Times. Mother DoloresHart, O.S.B. & Richard DeNeut, The Ear of the Heart, An Actress' Journey from...
Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl, starring Bradford Dillman as Francis. DoloresHart, who plays Clare, later became a Benedictine nun. Francesco di Assisi...
of Assisi, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bradford Dillman and DoloresHart The Frightened City, starring Sean Connery, John Gregson, Yvonne Romain...
as well as activity on the lanes. Rumors of a new movie musical about DoloresHart inspire the sisters to audition for roles. Cast recordings have been...
Miss Kate Where the Boys Are 1960 Angie Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, DoloresHart, George Hamilton, Jim Hutton Henry Levin Joe Pasternak Follow the Boys...
countryside collecting information from cheese-making experts. Mother DoloresHart advised her to go with "The Cheese Nun", because cheese is more appealing...
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