Nearly a half century ago, Mother Dolores Hart left a flourishing Hollywood career to become a Roman Catholic nun in a cloistered convent in Connecticut. This 2011 profile of the Academy’s unlikeliest Oscar voter, first published in the Entertainment Weekly‘s Oscar preview issue (but no longer available online), won a Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council.
The nun who kissed Elvis: A profile of Mother Dolores Hart
Mother Dolores Hart in 2013 interview; (inset) Hart in 1961 (EWTN; Hugo van Gelderen / Anefo)
