Dolores Hart left a successful Hollywood acting career to become a nun. A true story.Dolores Hart left a successful Hollywood acting career to become a nun. A true story.Dolores Hart left a successful Hollywood acting career to become a nun. A true story.
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- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
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Dolores Hart
- Self
- (as Mother Prioress Dolores Hart)
Elvis Presley
- Clips from 'Loving You' and 'King Creole'
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough this is not mentioned in this documentary, Hart is still a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the body that awards the Oscars). She often watches her Academy screeners with her fellow nuns. In 2015 she appeared on CNN's Michael Smerconish show to discuss her picks for that year's Oscars. She said that she had a hard time choosing between The Grand Budapest Hotel and Boyhood for Best Picture, but ultimately voted for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
- Quotes
Dolores Hart: I often wonder why the Lord gave me such opportunity to audition for Elvis. There were so many of us in line that day and I just can't believe I got the part.
- ConnectionsFeatures Loving You (1957)
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were I to give up acting, I'd do something low-key
Dolores Hart was an actress in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Then, just like that, she gave up acting in favor of a cloistered life. She has been a nun ever since. Rebecca Cammisa's Oscar-nominated "God Is the Bigger Elvis" focuses on Hart's life in the Benedictine order at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, with some clips of her movie roles. Hart is the only nun who is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
I can understand why a person would want to leave Hollywood, but I can't imagine adopting a religious lifestyle. I guess that if it's made Dolores Hart happy, then more power to her. She was a real hottie in her movie roles. The only credit of hers that I've seen - besides this documentary - is an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I wonder if she talks to the abbey's other nuns about her encounters with Elvis Presley and Montgomery Clift.
In the end, it's not a great documentary, but worth seeing.
I can understand why a person would want to leave Hollywood, but I can't imagine adopting a religious lifestyle. I guess that if it's made Dolores Hart happy, then more power to her. She was a real hottie in her movie roles. The only credit of hers that I've seen - besides this documentary - is an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I wonder if she talks to the abbey's other nuns about her encounters with Elvis Presley and Montgomery Clift.
In the end, it's not a great documentary, but worth seeing.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Dec 25, 2016
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By what name was God Is the Bigger Elvis (2012) officially released in Canada in English?
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