Dolores Fuller

Dolores Agnes Eble was born on March 10, 1923, in South Blend, Indiana. She appeared for the first time in the cinema when she was a child, almost by chance, when she was spending a few days with her family in a motel where sequences of It Happened One Night by Frank Capra were being filmed .

She got her start working in television, as a stewardess on “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show,” and a model on “Queen for a Day.” She was also a regular extra in the movies.

Determined to become an actress, Dolores Fuller went to a casting call for director Edward D. Wood Jr. one day . He immediately fell in love with her and promised her that he was going to make her a star. “Many girls showed up for the casting, but I was wearing an angora sweater, and he was passionate about those sweaters,” recalled the actress. Under her command, she starred in Jail Bait , a gangster film, and was later secondary in La novia del monstruo .

They went to live together despite the fact that in the 50s it was quite scandalous for a woman to live with a man without being married, with a guy who was also a transvestite in private. It took him a while to confess to her that he stole her angorina sweater, a real event that inspired the director of the best-known sequence of the film starring both of them I changed my sex , where his character explains that he secretly takes the sweater.

After parting ways with Wood, her career languished. In the late 90s, after the success of Ed Wood , the Tim Burton film in which the actress was played by Sarah Jessica Parker , some filmmakers offered her roles in B-movies, such as The Ironbound Vampire , Dimensions in Fear and The Corpse . Grinders 2 .

Married to Philip Chamberlin, who survived her, Dolores Fuller had two children, one of whom died prematurely in 2004.