{{Short description|American actress (1941–1990)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Dolores Faith | image = Dolores Faith.jpg | image_size = | caption = Faith in 1961 | birth_name = Dolores Faith Hedges | birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|07|15}} | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | education = Alexander Hamilton High School | known_for = {{hlist|The Phantom Planet|The Human Duplicators|Mutiny in Outer Space}} | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1961–1972 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|02|25|1941|07|15}} | death_place = Miami, Florida, U.S. | resting_place = | spouse = {{marriage|James Robert Neal<br />|1972|1977|end=divorced}} | awards = }}
'''Dolores Faith Hedges''' (July 15, 1941 – February 25, 1990), better known as '''Dolores Faith''', was an American actress. She is best remembered as the mute girl Zetha in the 1961 science fiction film ''The Phantom Planet''. Her brief career came to an end when she married millionaire James Robert Neal.<ref name= Glamour/>
==Early life== Dolores Faith Hedges was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 15, 1941. She was of Hungarian and Italian descent.<ref name=Glamour>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITClSVUV7voC&dq=%22Dolores+Faith%22&pg=PA79 |title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles |pages=77–79 |first=Tom |last=Lisanti |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2007 |isbn=978-0786431724}}</ref> She lost her hearing at age four from an accident, but it later returned by age eight. A natural blonde, she dyed her hair black to better match her olive skin.<ref name= Glamour/> She graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1958. She was a member of the "Sock 'n' Buskin" drama club.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}
==Career== Faith began as a model and as a dance instructor before acting.<ref name= Glamour/> In 1959, she was given a screen test by Warner Bros. They chose not to hire her because of her resemblance to both Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. She became a Hollywood Deb Star in 1962 and was featured in ''Life'' magazine in 1963.<ref name=Faith>{{cite web |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/556/Dolores+Faith/index.html |title=Dolores Faith |work=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen |accessdate=December 14, 2015}}</ref><ref name=Life>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58 |title=Ah, What Sights—Water Sprites! |first=Don |last=Ornitz |magazine=Life |date=April 26, 1963 |issn=0024-3019}}</ref>
Faith probably is best remembered for three low-budget science fiction films: ''The Phantom Planet'', ''The Human Duplicators'' and ''Mutiny in Outer Space''. She also appeared in dramas. In ''V.D.'', she was a young vixen who gets gonorrhea from the "hero" (who got it from a prostitute). In ''Wild Harvest'', she plays the mistress of a ruthless, womanizing vineyard manager whom she sides against after getting fed up. She was also in ''Shell Shock'', a war drama.
On television, she appeared in episodes of ''Ripcord'', ''Have Gun - Will Travel'' and ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', a two-part episode released theatrically as ''One of Our Spies Is Missing''.
==Personal life== Faith met Texas millionaire and Maxwell House heir James Robert Neal (1921-2006) and the couple became a regular sight at various public events.<ref name= Faith/> In November 1972, they were married in Las Vegas after a long courtship, and she retired from acting.<ref>{{cite news |title=In Hollywood |first=Dorothy |last=Manners |newspaper=Mansfield News Journal |page=21 |date=November 25, 1972}}</ref> They divorced in April 1977.<ref name= Faith/> They remarried years later and remained married until her death.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}
==Death== Faith died by suicide <ref>{{Cite web |title=Dolores Faith - The Private Life and Times of Dolores Faith. Dolores Faith Pictures. |url=https://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/556/Dolores+Faith/index.html |access-date=2025-11-25 |website=www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com}}</ref> in Miami, Florida, on February 25, 1990, at the age of 48. In his book ''Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles'', author Tom Lisanti falsely claimed that Faith was alive and living in Florida as of 2006.<ref name= Glamour/>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" |Notes |- |1961 |''All in a Night's Work'' |Girl Holding Hands |Uncredited |- |1961 |''The Phantom Planet'' |Zetha | |- |1961 |''Love in a Goldfish Bowl'' |Pie Throwing Girl |Uncredited |- |1961 |''V.D.'' |Kathy Durham | |- |1962 |''Wild Harvest'' |Rose | |- |1963 |''Ripcord'' |Tanya Rovag |Episode: "The Last Chapter" |- |1963 |''Have Gun - Will Travel'' |The Rani |Episode: "The Caravan" |- |1964 |''Shell Shock'' |American Girl | |- |1965 |''Honeymoon Hotel'' |Mrs. Fendelmeyer |Uncredited |- |1965 |''Mutiny in Outer Space'' |Faith Montaine | |- |1965 |''The Human Duplicators'' |Lisa Dornheimer | |- |1965 |''House of the Black Death'' |Valerie Desard | |- |1966 |''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' |Lorelei Lancer |Episode: "The Bridge of Lions Affair, Part 1" |- |1966 |''One of Our Spies Is Missing'' |Lorelei Lancer | |- |1966 |''That Tennessee Beat'' |Belle Scofield |- |1972 |''Summer of '63'' |Kathy |Uncredited<br />Short film, uses footage from 1961 V.D. film |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0265697}} * {{Find a Grave|167549083}}
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