Some of you may recall her as the aged Rose in James Cameron’s movie, Titanic but once upon a time, as I pointed out some time ago, she was young and glamorous and beautiful and was a Hollywood star or, at least, a major starlet. She has died:
Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100.
Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson.
Do go to the link and read the LA Times’s wonderful obit. A movie career would be enough for most people but not Ms. Stuart. She had two movie careers as well as a family, a political career, and a career in art. Quite a woman.
In your previous link, that’s a very timeless photo of her when she was younger with the simple black dress and hairstyle.
Of her earlier work, I think I only recognize seeing her in the Invisible Man, which I hope to see shown sometime next month.