- In 1960, she married Boyce Leon Mosco, a salesman and heroin addict, who once was convicted of armed robbery. They had one daughter, Melody Mickles Mosco born on May 15, 1961. Falling on hard times three years later, he, Dolores and others tried to rob an armored truck but failed and managed to flee. A frightened Dolores hid out at home where she died of a heroin overdose the following day.
- Had a two-year long relationship with actor/director Hugo Haas. He cast her in the temptress role of Miranda, a circus lion tamer, in his low-budget film noir Hit and Run (1957).
- Photogenic redheaded actress, dancer and model. Occasionally billed herself as "Delilah Dane". Featured in many magazines, including Frolic, Glamour Photography, Scamp and Modern Man Quarterly (which described her as "Hollywood's New Jane Russell").
- As Dolores Jane Mosco, she died on August 4, 1963, at age 30, in Los Angeles from a morphine barbiturate overdose - one year to the day after Marilyn Monroe 's barbiturate overdose.
- Her second husband, Larry Eugene Reed, was a mechanic who didn't want his wife pursuing an acting/modeling career. They split up within a year or two, but Dolores kept his surname after they divorced as a stage moniker.
- Her father abandoned the family while she was an infant. Her mother, Rhona, a wannabe actress, moved to Hollywood to get her daughter into pictures.
- She married her first husband, high school sweetheart Philip Hoffman, not long they graduated in 1950. They had daughter Dana Kristine Hoffman shortly after that.
- A one-time Vegas chorine at the Dunes Hotel, Dolores was cast in a 1963 tour of the musical "Little Me" starring Sid Caesar.
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