On Thursday, a massive fire broke out at a senior living center outside of Philadelphia, leaving at least 27 people injured, according to multiple reports.
The five-alarm fire at Barclay Friends Senior Living Community started after 11 p.m. on Thursday. It took hours before firefighters were able to get control over the blaze, according to ABC News.
The Associated Press reported that after the fire started, dozens of neighbors helped staff with rescuing residents, carrying some of them to the ambulances on makeshift gurneys. Some of the residents were taken to a shelter set up at a nearby college, according to USA Today.
The five-alarm fire at Barclay Friends Senior Living Community started after 11 p.m. on Thursday. It took hours before firefighters were able to get control over the blaze, according to ABC News.
The Associated Press reported that after the fire started, dozens of neighbors helped staff with rescuing residents, carrying some of them to the ambulances on makeshift gurneys. Some of the residents were taken to a shelter set up at a nearby college, according to USA Today.
- 11/19/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
By Lauren Markoe
Religion News Service
Washington (Rns) The way fans reacted to Dolores Hart’s decision to become a cloistered nun, you might have thought the movie star had announced her intention to kill herself.
Even close friends and family could not fathom why this Grace Kelly look-alike, who gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss and had her pick of acting jobs, would stow herself away in a nunnery for the rest of her life.
As if to test her resolve in those weeks before she left Hollywood, Universal Studios offered her a role opposite Marlon Brando, a role she turned down shortly after she broke off her engagement to Don Robinson, a kind and handsome businessman who loved her intensely.
“Even my best friend, who was a priest, Father Doody, said, ‘You’re crazy. This is absolutely insane to do this,’” Mother Delores Hart remembered in a recent interview,...
Religion News Service
Washington (Rns) The way fans reacted to Dolores Hart’s decision to become a cloistered nun, you might have thought the movie star had announced her intention to kill herself.
Even close friends and family could not fathom why this Grace Kelly look-alike, who gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss and had her pick of acting jobs, would stow herself away in a nunnery for the rest of her life.
As if to test her resolve in those weeks before she left Hollywood, Universal Studios offered her a role opposite Marlon Brando, a role she turned down shortly after she broke off her engagement to Don Robinson, a kind and handsome businessman who loved her intensely.
“Even my best friend, who was a priest, Father Doody, said, ‘You’re crazy. This is absolutely insane to do this,’” Mother Delores Hart remembered in a recent interview,...
- 6/18/2013
- by Religion News Service
- Huffington Post
The Academy Awards Red Carpet is usually known as the glitziest and most glamorous event in pop culture, but the 2012 Oscars features a unique guest stepping into the spotlight: Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, the only nun to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the subject of this year's Oscar-nominated documentary: "God is the Bigger Elvis."
Before pursuing the faith, Hart was poised to become a big actress in Hollywood: she made her movie debut opposite Elvis Presley in "Loving You" and then worked with him again in "King Creole." She became an in-demand young talent -- spurred on by rumors of an off-screen affair with the rock and roll icon. From 1957 to 1963, she starred in ten films, including the ground-breaking teen comedy "Where the Boys Are." On the eve of becoming a box office superstar, Hart gave up Hollywood to become a...
Before pursuing the faith, Hart was poised to become a big actress in Hollywood: she made her movie debut opposite Elvis Presley in "Loving You" and then worked with him again in "King Creole." She became an in-demand young talent -- spurred on by rumors of an off-screen affair with the rock and roll icon. From 1957 to 1963, she starred in ten films, including the ground-breaking teen comedy "Where the Boys Are." On the eve of becoming a box office superstar, Hart gave up Hollywood to become a...
- 2/27/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Huffington Post
The Academy Awards Red Carpet is usually known as the glitziest and most glamorous event in pop culture, but the 2012 Oscars features a unique guest stepping into the spotlight: Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, the only nun to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the subject of this year's Oscar-nominated documentary: "God is the Bigger Elvis." Before pursuing the faith, Hart was poised to become a big actress in Hollywood: she made her movie debut opposite Elvis Presley in "Loving You" and then worked with him again in "King Creole." She became an in-demand young talent -- spurred on by rumors of an off-screen affair with the rock and roll icon. From 1957 to 1963, she starred in ten films, including the ground-breaking teen comedy "Where the Boys Are." On the eve of becoming a box office superstar, Hart gave up Hollywood to become a...
- 2/27/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
Nearly 50 years after leaving Tinseltown to become a cloistered Benedictine nun, Mother Dolores Hart, who co-starred with Elvis Presley in 11 movies, is returning to Hollywood to appear at the Academy Awards next Sunday. And she'll be wearing her religious habit.
Mother Dolores, 73, is the focus of "God Is the Bigger Elvis", an HBO documentary nominated in the best documentary short category.
The film documents Hart's unusual journey from starring in dozens of Hollywood films to becoming Prioress of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., where she acts as spiritual counselor to 38 cloistered nuns, Sojourners reports.
"It will be so nice to be back at the Oscars. It's such a fun night," Hart told USA Today. "The last time I was there was in 1959, when I was a presenter. This will be different."
Back then, Hart was a 21-year-old rising starlet who had already starred in films alongside Elvis Presley,...
Mother Dolores, 73, is the focus of "God Is the Bigger Elvis", an HBO documentary nominated in the best documentary short category.
The film documents Hart's unusual journey from starring in dozens of Hollywood films to becoming Prioress of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., where she acts as spiritual counselor to 38 cloistered nuns, Sojourners reports.
"It will be so nice to be back at the Oscars. It's such a fun night," Hart told USA Today. "The last time I was there was in 1959, when I was a presenter. This will be different."
Back then, Hart was a 21-year-old rising starlet who had already starred in films alongside Elvis Presley,...
- 2/15/2012
- by Jocelyn Richard
- Huffington Post
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