Trivia

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.

Was Dinah Shore's double on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) until her conflict in filming Jail Bait (1954) with Edward D. Wood Jr. caused her to get fired.

Fuller's autobiography, "A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me," was published in 2009.

Fuller also worked as a songwriter. Her credits include "Rock-a-Hula Baby" (with Benjamin Weisman and Fred Wise), from the 1961 Presley pic "Blue Hawaii," and "Do the Clam" (with Weisman and Sid Wayne), from "Girl Happy." She also co-wrote "Someone to Tell It To," recorded by Nat King Cole, and "Losers Weepers," which Peggy Lee recorded.

After leaving Ed Wood in 1955, Fuller moved to New York and studied with the famous acting teacher Stella Adler, and then drifted into a productive second career as a songwriter.

Dolores gave up acting in the late 1950s and went on to found her own record company, Dee Dee Records, helping to launch the careers of Johnny Rivers and Tanya Tucker.

Fuller had been a small-time television actress when she answered a casting call from an unknown director in the early 1950s. Ed Wood was immediately smitten by her beauty - and her angora sweater - and the couple went on to live together for four years, during which the cross-dressing filmmaker turned his fetish into the film, Glen or Glenda.

Her maternal grandmother was an opera singer in Budapest, Hungary.

Ms. Fuller, a Hollywood bit player and stand-in for Dinah Shore, was a newly divorced mother of two when she won her role in "Glen or Glenda" after wearing an angora sweater to an audition. She soon moved in with Wood. She said she found him more charming and handsome than the portly, cigar-breathed producers who usually leered at her.