13 Facts About Dolores Fuller

Dolores Agnes Fuller was an American actress and songwriter known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Ed Wood.

Dolores Fuller played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in his Bride of the Monster.

Dolores Fuller ended up making an appearance in Bride of the Monster, with Lugosi.

Dolores Fuller hosted a benefit for Lugosi which preceded the showing of Bride of the Atom on May 11,1955.

Dolores Fuller became his girlfriend shortly thereafter and began acting in his films.

Dolores Fuller had already had earlier experience on television in Queen for a Day and The Dinah Shore Show.

Dolores Fuller went into a collaborative partnership with composer Ben Weisman and co-wrote one song, "Rock-A-Hula Baby", for the film.

Dolores Fuller's music was recorded by Nat 'King' Cole, Peggy Lee, and other leading talents of the time.

Toward the end of her life, Dolores Fuller helped edit and score a short western film Ed Wood had begun, but never completed, in the 1940s called Crossroads of Laredo.

Wood biographer Rudolph Grey quotes Dolores Fuller as saying of the period before her success,.

Dolores Fuller remarried in 1988 at age 65, to Philip Chamberlin, and they remained married until her death in 2011.

Dolores Fuller was portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Tim Burton's 1994 Wood biographical film Ed Wood, a portrayal of which she disapproved due to the fact that she was depicted smoking in the film, while Dolores Fuller said she herself was a lifelong non-smoker.

Dolores Fuller complained that she was only portrayed as "sort of as an actress" and did not feel she was given credit for her other accomplishments and contributions towards Wood's career.