Dolly, who destroyed Hollywood installations (12 photos)

Amazing beauty, talent, attention of directors. This the girls were all set to become rich and famous. But she surprised Hollywood, fans and the whole world and chose a different path.





Dolores Hart (née Hicks) was born in 1938. Young luck smiled at the beauty, and she played her first role in the film "Loving You" where Elvis Presley himself acted as a partner. Kiss them on screen lasted a full 15 seconds, and the public immediately started talking about novel. Although between them there were only purely business relations.



After a successful start, the proposals followed one after another others. But the proposed roles of the same type - young dummies looked like one to another. Then followed the proposals of the main roles in musical comedies. Moreover, in the painting "Francis of Azis", which is noteworthy, she got the heroine, who left her family for the sake of a preacher.



"Francis of Azis"



"King Creole"



"Lonely Hearts"

In total, over the 10 years of her career, Dolores had 6 works, including "King Creole", "Lonely Hearts" (1958), "Where guys" (1960). In the film that became the final in Hart's career - "Fly with me" she had the main role.



"Fly with me"

Almost immediately after filming ended, 25-year-old Dolores decided to enter a monastery. And not a novice, but to accept tonsured, become a nun of the Benedictines and leave the world in the past.



Before leaving, she broke off her engagement to the architect Don Robinson. Remarkably, the man kept good things with Dolores. relationship, never married, and visited his ex-fiancee church holidays until his death.



The woman gave all her property to the family of a friend - actor Karl Malden. She explained her behavior as follows:

It wasn't my lifelong dream. I didn't grow up wanting become a nun. I wanted to become an actress. If I ever offered to become a nun, that would be the last thing on my mind. A million to one that I'll someday be a nun.



Hollywood was buzzing like a broken bee hive. People chatted all sorts of things, because there were no such precedents in the history of the dream factory. They even said that she became pregnant by Elvis and hid from human eye to calmly give birth, and then return. But nothing like that happened. Subsequently, in a book of memoirs, she noted that the relationship with Presley were exclusively business. And the former actress took the tonsure only a year later, after carefully considering and weighing everything.



The woman did not regret her choice. Worth a look on her happy look - sparkling with enthusiasm eyes and a smile. But the elderly The lady is already 85 years old.



At the same time, Hart remains the only nun for whom retained the status of a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences United States and has a say in the Oscars.



She did not completely break ties with Hollywood: she invited celebrities to raise funds to finance their monastery. A she defined the dream factory as follows:

I never felt like I was "leaving Hollywood." I I felt that I was entering into something more significant, and therefore I took Hollywood with you. I adored Hollywood. I didn't leave him because was a place of sin.