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 …

But in 1962 she left Hollywood behind and became a nun. In 2016, the former star, now known as Mother Dolores Hart, celebrated 50 years of vowed life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, an...

Mar 8, 2024 · In the early 1960s, Dolores Hart was a rising film star. Then she left it all to become a Catholic nun at Benedictine Abbey in Bethlehem, Connecticut. She gave up fame at just 24 …

Aug 2, 2008 · Hollywood star turned nun helps Waterbury group by Tracy Simmons for the Republican-American (May 31, 2008) Excerpt: She found herself asking what life is about. …

May 7, 2013 · She is a compassionate narrator, from her childhood days, darkened by parental alcoholism, to her Hollywood career and her calling as a Catholic nun. Mother Dolores talks …

Jun 17, 2013 · (RNS) At 24, Dolores Hart, the actress who gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss, gave up a promising Hollywood career to begin life as a cloistered nun. Fifty years later, she …

Jan 27, 2021 · Dolores Hart has the distinction of starring in not one but two Elvis flicks before deciding to leave Hollywood altogether to become a nun -- before turning 25.

May 7, 2013 · Mother Dolores Hart, the woman who left her movie career to become a Benedictine nun, has released a new biography explaining her shift from a rising star in …

Apr 11, 2006 · Dolores Hart, who at age 24 startled the film world in 1962 by leaving a thriving screen career — including two roles opposite Elvis Presley — to become a nun, has returned …

Jan 13, 2025 · Former actress Sister Clare Crockett is in the running to become a saint nearly nine years after her death. The late Northern Ireland native was recognized as a candidate for …