00:00Dolores Hart, who starred as Merritt in Where the Boys Are, made her film debut three years
00:05earlier in the 1957 Elvis Presley musical Loving You. She appeared with Elvis again one year later
00:11in King Creole, but after starring in Where the Boys Are in 1960, she only continued to work in
00:17Hollywood for two more years. In 1962, while making the romantic comedy Come Fly With Me,
00:22she got engaged and planned to get married. But just as she was planning her wedding,
00:26she decided she was on the wrong path. She called off the engagement and left Hollywood,
00:32moving to the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut to become a cloistered nun.
00:37Mother Dolores Hart is still with us today at age 86, and she was a guest programmer here on TCM
00:43with Robert Osborne in 2014. Up next, Tom Courtney stars in a landmark drama from England in 1962,
00:51directed by Tony Richardson.
00:54Next on TCM, the loneliness of the long-distance runner, then the hitchhiker, and later it's
01:01a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. Keep Down's Worth with TCM today.
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