Dolores Faith

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. 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.

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. They divorced in April 1977. 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.

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