Nun returns to Hollywood for Oscar night

February 21, 2012: The Oscar night at Hollywood in this year will have an unusual guest -- a cloistered nun.
She will be walking the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre where a documentary on her, "God is Bigger Than Elvis," is up for an Academy Award.
"I'm always excited by Hollywood," said Mother Dolores, a Benedictine nun who was a Hollywood actress alongside Elvis Presley 47 years ago. She went on to perform in several more films in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1961 she played St Clare in Francis of Assisi. That year she met Pope John XXIII. She told him: "I'm Dolores Hart, the actress playing Clare." The Pope said: "No, you are Clare!" Those words were prophetic, as a few years later Dolores entered the Regina Laudis Benedictine Abbey in Connecticut, USA and took her final vows there in 1970.
The nun said her excitement is “even bigger now because I'm not looking for a part."
She said her archbishop and abbess encouraged her to participate in the film because they felt this was part of her mission.
Mother Dolores Hart became Prioress of the Abbey in 2001, but she remains a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, having in recent years become the only nun to be an Oscar-voting member.