Dolores Fuller

Dolores Fuller first got the idea that she wanted to get into the picture business at the age of ten, when she was an extra in the motel sequence of It Happened One Night (1934). She acted in school plays, modeled and landed a few jobs on TV.

In the early 1950s, she and her actress-friend, Mona McKinnon, went to a casting call where they met producer-director Edward D. Wood Jr. , who became Fuller's boyfriend.

Wood's real-life passion for wearing women's clothes was focused upon in the filmmaker's semi-autobiographical Glen or Glenda (1953), in which Wood starred as a cross-dresser and Fuller played his girlfriend.

Fuller also appeared in Wood's Jail Bait (1954) and Bride of the Monster (1955) before his drinking caused a split.

Was Dinah Shore's double on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) until her conflict in filming Jail Bait (1954) with Edward D. Wood Jr. caused her to get fired.

Fuller turned songwriter, wrote tunes for a number of movies (including Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961) and Kid Galahad (1962)), founded her own record company (Dee Dee Records) and helped to launch the careers of Johnny Rivers and Tanya Tucker.

Is portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Ed Wood (1994). In an interview about the movie, Dolores said that Sarah Jessica Parker never contacted her about portraying her in the movie. Instead, when they met at the press party for the movie, SJP told Dolores that she had just finished telling everyone at the party that she had just played the part of "the worst actress in the history of film" to her face. Dolores was naturally very hurt.

Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).

For the last few years- she has been making Celebrity Convention appearances across the USA. [2000]