She was said to be the next Grace Kelly and gave Elvis Presley his first on-screen kiss; then she left it all behind in order to become a nun.
who better to recall the push and pull between transcendent impulses and beautiful pleasures?
These days, the actress turned Roman Catholic nun can be found in the monastery, tending to the community as well as her chickens and cows and llamas, not to mention her African gray parrot, Beau, who is currently whistling into the phone. Mother Dolores also meets her sisters seven times a day and once at night for prayer.
But it wasn’t all a seamless transition for the prioress who, then 24 years old in 1963, had to quietly purge all her belongings—fur coats, jewels, dresses—in secret. “It was really sad, like what purgatory may be like,” she says with a laugh. “I couldn’t talk to the press, not even my mother, but they had to make sure I was for real.” After she entered the monastery and became a postulant, she wouldn’t take the habit of a nun for at least another year.
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