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"Look up Dolores Hart on IMDB -- and prepare to be wowed. Hart, a Hollywood brat discovered while attending Marymount College, starred opposite Elvis in "Loving You" (1957). George Cukor directed her and Anna Magnani in "Wild is the Wind" (1957). The future prioress starred in the cult favorite "Where the Boys Are" (1960) -- and even played a nun in Michael Curtiz's "Francis of Assisi" (1961). And then, in 1963, at age 24 on the verge of marriage and following the premiere of her final feature, "Come Fly With Me," this leading lady who had been compared to Grace Kelly and kissed "the King" on screen, entered the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut." http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/oscars/love-tender-mother-dolores-hart-elvis-her-big-225445357.html
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David, thanks for posting this. Dolores Hart was a wonderful actress and a beautiful young woman. The story of her life since that time, as a cloistered nun, is nothing less than intriguing and inspiring. Her abbey is sorely in need of funds to renovate and maintain itself, as was discussed in several articles a few months back. One is here [huffingtonpost.com]. Among the many heart-warming stories associated with her change in lifestyle is the fact that the young man to whom she was engaged before deciding that her vocation was to the sisterhood remained a close friend. He both supported and visited the abbey throughout the years until his death. I may actually watch the Oscars this year, for the first time in a long while. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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In Greece there was a beautiful singer, who became a nun and abbess, after one of her daughters died in a car accident. Here is her story: click here [ johnsanidopoulos.com] Also from this same excellent and best of all Orthodox blogs/spiritually enlightening resources, see the trailer for the movie "A day in the life of a Monastery" click here [ johnsanidopoulos.com]
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Mother Dolores is expected to attend this Sunday's Academy Awards. I am sure it will make a lot of people do a double take to see a religious in full habit walking down the red carpet. I do hope that her documentary wins the Oscar. She herself isn't nominated, but I am sure if her documentary wins the two nominated producers will want her to go up on stage. In this time of anti-Catholicsm, what an opportunity to witness to the Truth in front of Tinseltown's so-called elite. Here is 20/20 [ youtube.com] interview with Mother Dolores from years ago.
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Mother Dolores is expected to attend this Sunday's Academy Awards. I am sure it will make a lot of people do a double take to see a religious in full habit walking down the red carpet. I do hope that her documentary wins the Oscar. She herself isn't nominated, but I am sure if her documentary wins the two nominated producers will want her to go up on stage. In this time of anti-Catholicsm, what an opportunity to witness to the Truth in front of Tinseltown's so-called elite. Here is 20/20 [ youtube.com] interview with Mother Dolores from years ago. Thank you for providing the link to this interview. It is an amazing story. I was bowled over by how extremely pretty she was when she was young! WOW! I liked the part where she said that she and Elvis both blushed when they had to kiss for the scene. Can you imagine? How far from that innocence our society has come...Now stars pose nude, simulate sex nude, show nude bellies when pregnant--it is all so repugnant from a Christian point of view! What an amazing calling Dolores had in being successful, beautiful, having an amazing, handsome and successful fiancee, etc., and giving it all up! And to be 24 and give up your vanity by wearing the full monastic habit is such a difficult thing--only a great calling to God could explain it. When a woman completely covers her head and hair, she loses a sense of bodily 'self', and feels her 'soul' much more.
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In Greece there was a beautiful singer, who became a nun and abbess, after one of her daughters died in a car accident. Here is her story: click here [ johnsanidopoulos.com] Also from this same excellent and best of all Orthodox blogs/spiritually enlightening resources, see the trailer for the movie "A day in the life of a Monastery" click here [ johnsanidopoulos.com] Another incredible story of faith. Thank you, Alice.
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