{"id":3807,"date":"2016-07-15T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:32:15","slug":"happy-birthday-dolores-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/happy-birthday-dolores-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOLORES FAITH!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"adoloresf\"<\/a>A luminous dark-haired beauty who eerily resembled Elizabeth Taylor with the classiness of Grace Kelly, the late Dolores Faith\u00a0projected a sweet persona and was usually cast as fragile ing\u00e9nues or vixenish vamps but surprisingly never rose out of Grade Z movies.\u00a0Dolores, a natural blonde who bucked the trend in the halcyon days of Sandra Dee and the flaxen-haired Barbie Doll by dying her hair black to match her olive skin, began the decade with bit parts as a young bride in All in a Nights Work <\/em>(1961) and a pie-throwing coed in Love in a Goldfish Bowl <\/em>(1961).\u00a0The fledgling starlet next grabbed a lead role in the low-budget exploitation movie V.D.<\/em> (1961), which was also released under the title Damaged Goods<\/em>. She played a dark and temperamental teenage trollop who seduces her friend\u2019s beau and pays for it by getting the Clap. In the cult sci-fi movie The Phantom Planet<\/em> (1961) she is a mute inhabitant of the planet Rehton who falls in love with stranded astronaut Dean Fredericks. At first he is treated as a hostile until he rescues the beautiful Faith from the icky creatures the Solarites. In the process, she regains her voice. Faith received a lot of press for this as she was billed as \u201cThe Girl from Outer Space\u201d on the film\u2019s posters and from a purported romance with dashing Sean Flynn son of Errol Flynn.<\/p>\n

More notoriety came her way when she was selected to be a Hollywood Deb Star in 1962 however it did not lead to any significant movie roles for her and she was back in exploitation land re-teaming with Dean Fredericks in the totally obscure drama Wild Harvest<\/em> (1962). On television she turned up on Ripchord <\/em>and\u00a0Have Gun, Will Travel<\/em> in 1963.\u00a0 That same year Life<\/em> magazine published\u00a0a feature story on her but all it led to is a cameo appearance as a towel-clad American woman in Italy who gently convinces a jealous sergeant to help his rival and girlfriend escape from the Germans in the WWII adventure Shell Shock<\/em> (1964). It was a respite before Dolores returned to far out roles in two Grade Z sci-fi productions from the directing\/writing team of Hugo Grimaldi and Arthur C. Pierce. In Mutiny in Outer Space<\/em> (1965) she joined Glamazons Pamela Curran and Francine York as astronauts on a space station being terrorized by a creeping alien fungus. As the crew\u2019s bio-chemist, Faith is the one who first discovers the creature.\u00a0The Human Duplicators<\/em> (1965) had space visitors trying to take over the world by duplicating the Earth inhabitants as androids. Faith\u2019s next movie was a step down from even the previous two but that is not surprising since schlock horror filmmaker Jerry Warren was brought in to try to save it.\u00a0House of Black Death<\/em> (1965) featured Dolores as the innocent girl caught between two battling warlocks, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr., out to control the Desard family, which Faith is a member of. Dolores Faith married and retired from acting shortly after. She passed away in 1990.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Dolores Faith in my book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n