- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDolores Agnes Eble
- Nickname
- Delores Fuller
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- 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. 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. Fuller is vocal in her dislike of the way she was depicted by Sarah Jessica Parker in director Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpousesPhilip Chamberlin(August 8, 1988 - May 9, 2011) (her death)Donald Kenneth Fuller(June 28, 1941 - 1955) (divorced, 2 children)
- Is portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Ed Wood (1994). In an interview about the movie, Dolores said that Parker never contacted her about portraying her in the movie. Instead, when they met at the press party for the movie, Parker told her 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.
- On her convention appearances, she brings her white angora sweater that she wore in her Edward D. Wood Jr. movies from decades ago. She adorns it over the fans' shoulders along with her when taking pictures. At home, she keeps it in a small freezer to preserve it.
- As of 2003 she was residing quietly in Las Vegas, NV.
- Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
- In the late '900s and early 2000s she made Celebrity Convention appearances across the US.
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