She described him as a Southern gentleman who uttered the words, “How do you do, Miss Dolores?” when they first met. ‘Cut!’”īefore filming began on “Loving You,” Hart was a pinup-beautiful college student in California, and admittedly had never heard of Elvis.

“I took my next gulp and we went into the second kiss. “It wasn’t five seconds that (the director) yelled ‘Cut!’” Hart said. Hart told the audience about the lip-lock that made every teenage girl green with the sin of envy. She made her film debut playing Elvis’ love interest in 1957’s “Loving You,” which was Presley’s first starring role. Hart appeared in 10 movies in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with some of the biggest names of the era: Anthony Quinn, Myrna Loy, Connie Francis, George Hamilton and Montgomery Clift. “I had to know that there was something more important to do in my life,” Hart told the audience of her decision to become a nun as she stood inside the Father Peyton Center at Holy Cross Family Ministries on Stonehill’s campus.Īs she spoke, to her right, a large screen showed the audience a glamorous, black-and-white photograph of Hart taken during her time as an actress.

Hart is on a tour to discuss her memoir “The Ear of the Heart,” which tells of her transformation from starlet to prioress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn. Hart, 75, a former rising star in Hollywood who left a promising film career to become an nun, spoke before a packed audience at Stonehill College on Sunday afternoon. Not many women can say they kissed Elvis Presley and also turned him down for a date, but Mother Dolores Hart can.

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