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The 35-minute film examines Mother Dolores’s transformation from a Hollywood ingénue and the recipient of Elvis Presley’s first on-screen kiss to a cloistered Benedictine nun at the abbey, where for the past nine years she has been the prioress, the second in authority below the abbess, Mother David Serna.
Scheduled to be shown on HBO in April, the documentary offers a first-time glimpse inside the enclosed abbey and tells the stories of several nuns who live there. It also reveals Mother Dolores’s poignant 47-year friendship with her former fiancé, Don Robinson, a Los Angeles architect, who visited her regularly until his death last year. But is it compelling enough to earn an Oscar? The nuns are praying it is.
Dolores Hart - 20/20 Interview
She was very close to the late actress, Patricia Neal, who converted to Catholicism before her death, and requested to be buried at the abbey grounds.
Mother Dolores Hart Talks About Patricia Neal, Gary Cooper
With Raymond Arroyo on EWTN (scroll up to 27:55)
What a lovely lady. I remember her being so graceful and refined. Extraordinary life calling and journey.
