Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?: The True Story of a Starlet's Shocking Choice to Leave Hollywood for a Convent

ISBN: 0063338742

Author: McCoy, Sarah

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From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy-a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywoods Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun.In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywoods eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. Gossip columnists and scandal sheets cant get enough of the story. Why would such a beautiful girl take the veil? Was she hiding from someone? Did it have anything to do with her costar, heartthrob singer Lucas Wesley?In 1990, Lu Tibbott is under the gun to complete her senior thesis in modern American history. Instead of spending weeks in dusty archives, Lu decides to dig into a true twentieth-century mystery and write about her aunt Lori, now the Mother Abbess at a cloistered convent in rural New England. Biographers, journalists, and media types have long speculated about her aunt Loris sudden departure from Hollywood. Mother Lori, however, has refused all requests for interviews-until Lu arrives at the abbey with a tape recorder in hand. To her delight, Mother Lori announces shes finally ready to talk...but only if Lu is truly ready to listen.Lu is shocked to discover that the story of Lori Lovelys rise in Hollywood was far more tumultuous than shed ever expected, a fairy tale twisting with ambition, unforeseen alliances, forbidden love, and secrets. What began as a history thesis now threatens to upend all their lives with its unexpected truths, especially as the media gets wind of Lus project and begins to askWhatever happened to Lori Lovely?