There is also a video readers can watch of Mother Dolores.
Fun fact: Her uncle was singer Mario Lanza.
She was in two films with Elvis:
When asked if she felt Presley was a spiritual person, she says, "I didn't feel it. I knew it. When we spoke together between scenes, he talked to me about the Bible. He'd pick up the Gideon Bible from his hotel room and go to a particular text and say, 'Well, what do you think of this?' He actually talked about it. I thought that was touching because there was no actor I ever worked with who I had that type of elevated communication. Mostly they would sit and jabber about nonsense. I was 19, and he was 22, and at that age, that was done out of something that is a part of you."
She had some romantic feelings towards actor Stephen Boyd, best remembered by yours truly for his atrocious performance in The Oscar:
"I had a very genuine affection for [co-star] Stephen Boyd, and I thought at one point this might be someone I might even fall in love with.
One night when she was "romantically inclined," he brought her back to her apartment. "When he got to the door, he stopped, looked at me and said, 'Dolores, I know what you're thinking. But don't you understand? You're marked.'
"I didn't say a word. Not a word. I was just pierced. I felt so rejected. I said, 'Good night, Stephen,' and I closed the door. ... I remember racing back to where my room was at the end of the hall, and by the time I got there, I was a flood of tears."
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