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Benedictine nun Mother Dolores - once a starlet in movies alongside Elvis Presley- has no qualms about returning to Hollywood on Oscar night, said a report in The Daily Telegraph.
The former actress, who was known as Dolores Hart, now wears a black habit and lives in a cloistered order in the US state of Connecticut, The New York Post reported.
She will be walking the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre as the subject of the short documentary God is Bigger Than Elvis, which is up for an Academy Award.
"I'm always excited by Hollywood," Mother Dolores said. "The excitement is even bigger now because I'm not looking for a part."
She was encouraged by an archbishop and her abbess to participate in the film because "they felt this was part of my mission".
Although Mother Dolores walked away from Tinseltown 47 years ago, she has remained an Oscar voter. The nun said she watches nominated movies in her abbey's basement alone with her pet bird.
"I have my little TV set in the basement, in my office where my parrot lives," she said, adding that the other 36 sisters - who pray seven times each day - "have absolutely no desire" to watch movies.
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Star turned nun Delores Hart back for Oscars (Daily Telegraph/NewsCore)
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