The Ear of the Heart

Mother Dolores left fame and fortune for the convent; her autobiography inspires . . .

The Ear of the Heart
Mother Dolores
Hart Ignatius, 2013
539 pages, $24.95 hardcover

Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963 when, after 10 highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, 50 years later, Mother Hart delivers a fascinating account of her life.

Known as the woman who gave Elvis Presley his first on-screen kiss in 1957, she has traveled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., at the peak of her career in order to answer a mysterious summons she heard with the “ear of the heart.”

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