Dolores Hart
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Hart in 1959
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Dolores Hicks October 20, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Residence | Bethlehem, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | St. Gregory Catholic School |
| Alma mater | Marymount College |
| Years active | 1963–present (religious) 1957–63 (actress) |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Website | Ear of the heart, Ignatius Press |
 Mother Dolores Hart, Great Day - Houston, KHOU, August 23, 2013, 14:43 |
Dolores Hart, O.S.B., (born October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun who had been previously a prominent actress. She made ten films in five years, playing opposite Stephen Boyd, Montgomery Clift, George Hamilton and Robert Wagner, having made her movie debut with Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957). By the early 1960s an established leading lady, she "stunned Hollywood" by announcing that she would forgo her life as an actress, leaving behind her career to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut, where she served her monastic community for many years.
Born Dolores Hicks, she was the only child of actor Bert Hicks and Harriett Hicks, who separated when she was three years old, and ultimately divorced. She stated, "As a child I was precocious. My parents married when they were 16 and 17 and both were beautiful people. Moss Hart offered my mother, Harriett, a contract but by then they had me and my father, Bert Hicks, a bit player, definitely a Clark Gable type, had movie offers so he moved from Chicago to Hollywood. I was a Hollywood brat. He lived in Beverly Hills and I used to visit the lots with him. He had a bit part in Forever Amber. I always wanted to be part of that life."
Hicks was also related by marriage, through an aunt, to singer Mario Lanza. She lived in Chicago with her grandparents, who sent her to a parochial school, St. Gregory Catholic School, not for its religious education but it was closest to home and she stated, "My grandparents didn't want me to get run over by streetcars." It was actually her grandfather, a movie theater projectionist to whom she turned for comfort in light of her parents' marital problems, whose enthusiasm for films influenced her decision to pursue an acting career. She would watch the films, but without sound so as not to disturb his naps in the booth, and her job was to wake him at the end of each reel.
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