Posted by admin on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 and filed
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Mother Delores Hart made a dramatic return to Hollywood in her
habit to attend the Academy Awards, for again starring in an Oscar
award-winning film.
Having left Tinseltown in 1963 to pursue a life as a Benedictine
Nun, the 73-year-old previously featured in films with the likes of
Elvis Presley and George Hamilton.
Mother Delores was in fact the first recipient of Elvis’ first
on-screen kiss in the 1957 film Loving You.
Though barely audible against the screaming crowd at the red
carpet, she said: “It’s absolutely an extraordinary event. Believe
me; this is very different than being in the monastery.”
The 84th Academy Awards-nominated film is called God is the Bigger
Elvis, and allows a rare insight into the Abbey of Regina Laudis
where she and 35 other nuns chant in Latin, pray seven times a day
and eat in silence.
Whereas visitors are normally kept behind a grille, their
cloistered life is here exposed, with prayers beginning at
1:50am.
When asked how she could go from kissing Elvis to becoming a
nun, she answered: “How much closer to Heaven can you get?”
She said she believed he would have been very happy with her
nomination.
Before joining the order, Mother Delores was engaged to a Los
Angeles businessman, Don Robinson.
Although they never married each other, Mr Robinson visited
Mother Delores at the Abbey once a year for 47 years, and the two
vowed to always love each other.