From Elvis to Hitch to God

I’m scanning through as many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents as I can before Netflix pulls the series from its Watch Instantly selections tomorrow. Season three includes an installment with Dolores Hart, fresh from appearing with Elvis in Loving You, playing a seductive — and, I infer, pregnant — college coed.

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Elvis must have liked Dolores, because she was also in King Creole. What makes Dolores particularly interesting, and unusual, is that at age 25 she left Hollywood and became a nun, which she remains to this day.