An Actress Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows

Dolores Hart Elvis Presley Loving You Memoir
Ear of the Heart Memoir
Memoir by Dolores Hart and Richard DeNeut
   
   

"Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has
always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!"
Robert Evans, film producer

"Mother Dolores Hart is a remarkable woman with a remarkable story — one of love, devotion, and faith."
Maria Shriver, bestselling author of “Just Who Will You Be?”

"The story of Dolores Hart teaches us to seek God regardless of where we are
— in a summer storm, in prayer, or even in front of a camera."
Raymond Arroyo, New York Times bestselling author,
host of The World Over Live, and EWTN news director

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About the Book

Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut.

Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You. She acted in nine more movies, including Wild is the Wind, King Creole, and Where the Boys Are alongside other big stars such as Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Myrna Loy. She also gave a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play The Pleasure of His Company and appeared in television shows, including The Virginian and Playhouse 90. An important chapter in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi, which was filmed on location in Italy.

Born Dolores Hicks to a complicated and colorful Chicago family, Mother Dolores has travelled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God, serenity and, yes, love. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, at the peak of her career, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting she had dreamed of since childhood, but in order to answer a mysterious call she heard with the "ear of the heart". While contracted for another film and engaged to be married, she abandoned everything to become a bride of Christ.

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