Hollywood’s Dolores Hart/Mother Dolores participates in a Q&A at the screening HBO documentary God is the Bigger Elvis

Hollywood’s Dolores Hart/Mother Dolores will participate in a Q&A at the screening of the 2012 Academy Award-nominated HBO documentary God is the Bigger Elvis at The Ridgefield Playhouse Friday, May 25

                        Hollywood actress Dolores Hart/Mother Dolores is the subject of the 2012 Academy Award-nominated HBO documentary God is the Bigger Elvis which will be shown in a one-time private screening at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Friday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. She was a beautiful starlit who left it all behind in 1963 to become a Benedictine nun now living a monastic life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, CT.  Following The Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society Documentary Film Series’ presentation of the story of Dolores Hart now Mother Dolores (the only nun who is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), she will be on hand for a Q&A with hosts Ira Joe Fisher and Morton Dean, Emmy Award Winning television journalists. This event is sponsored by Cohen and Wolf, P.C., HBGroup, The Ridgefield Press and Sony XDCAM HC.

                    Yahoo!® news.com quoted Mother Dolores at the February Academy Awards show: “It's absolutely an extraordinary event," said Mother Dolores...”Believe me, this is very different than being in the monastery." When the 73-year-old Benedictine nun attended the 84th Academy Awards this year, she walked the red carpet for the first time since 1959, when she was the actress who had given a blushing Elvis Presley his first screen kiss. "God was the vehicle," she said of her odyssey. "He was the bigger Elvis".

                            God Is The Bigger Elvis, produced and directed by Rebecca Cammisa, is the story of Dolores Hart who was a rising star in Hollywood fifty years ago. She starred in ten movies with iconic actors Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani and Elvis Presley and left Hollywood in 1963. At 23, she was engaged to be married but moved to the Abbey of Regina Laudis where she now contributes to the spiritual guidance of 38 cloistered Benedictine nuns whose daily lives are also documented in the film. 

                                      For reserved seating ($10.00 donation), call or visit the box office at (203) 438-5795, or go to ridgefieldplayhouse.org. Proceeds for the evening will benefit the "New Horizons Renovation Project" at the Abbey of Regina Laudis. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.