Gloria Stuart was known for her roles in Pre-Code films, and garnered renewed fame late in life for her portrayal of Rose Dawson Calvert in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time at the time.
57 Facts About Gloria Stuart
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Gloria Stuart signed a film contract with Universal Pictures in 1932, and acted in numerous films for the studio, including the horror films The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, followed by roles in the Shirley Temple musicals Poor Little Rich Girl and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
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Gloria Stuart starred as Queen Anne in the musical comedy The Three Musketeers.
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In 1945, following a tenure as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox, Gloria Stuart abandoned her acting career and shifted to a career as an artist, working as a fine printer and making paintings, serigraphy, miniature books, Bonsai, and decoupage for the next three decades.
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Gloria Stuart produced numerous pieces during this period, many of which are part of collections in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Gloria Stuart gradually returned to acting in the late 1970s, appearing in several bit parts, including in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year and Wildcats.
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Gloria Stuart made a prominent return to mainstream cinema when she was cast as the 100-year-old elder Rose Dawson Calvert in Titanic, which earned her numerous accolades and renewed attention.
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When Gloria Stuart was nine years old, her father died as the result of an infection from an injury sustained when an automobile grazed his leg.
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Gloria Stuart was expelled from grade school after kicking her teacher.
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Gloria Stuart had not been given a middle name by her parents and so adopted one, Frances, the feminine of Frank, her father's name.
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Gloria Stuart attended Santa Monica High School, where she was active in theater and performed the lead role in her senior class play, The Swan.
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Gloria Stuart loved writing as much as acting and spent her last two summers in high school taking short story and poetry writing classes and working as a cub reporter for the Santa Monica Outlook.
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In Carmel-by-the-Sea, Gloria Stuart performed in productions at the Theatre of the Golden Bough and worked as a staff member on The Carmelite newspaper.
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Gloria Stuart meanwhile made hand-sewn aprons, patchwork pillows and tea linens, and created bouquets of dried flowers for a tea shop, in which she worked as a waitress.
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Gloria Stuart was invited there to appear as Masha in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
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Gloria Stuart considered herself a serious actress in theater, but she and Newell "were stony broke, living hand to mouth" so she decided to sign the contract with Universal, which paid a bit more than Paramount.
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Gloria Stuart's experience filming The Old Dark House became integral to the formation of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933:.
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Gloria Stuart was given her first co-starring role by director John Ford in her next film, Air Mail, playing opposite Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy.
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In 1932, her first year, Gloria Stuart had four films released, then nine in 1933, six in 1934.
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In 1935, Gloria Stuart was having a baby, so only four movies were released.
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In 1933, Gloria Stuart met Arthur Sheekman, one of the movie's writers.
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Gloria Stuart co-starred with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, the first of nine films featuring this male team.
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In that same year, Gloria Stuart left Universal and joined Twentieth Century-Fox.
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Gloria Stuart met with the fan and was photographed with him for a Life magazine profile in the fall of 1937.
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Gloria Stuart later appeared in The Lady Escapes, Life Begins in College and Change of Heart, which did not merit space in the New York Times movie pages.
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In New York, Gloria Stuart sought to return to stage acting, hoping to star on Broadway.
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Gloria Stuart's first movie in four years, Here Comes Elmer, was a comedy with music starring Roy Rogers' wife, Dale Evans.
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Two years later, Gloria Stuart took one more role: she wore a redhead's wig in She Wrote the Book a comedy starring Joan Davis and Jack Oakie.
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Gloria Stuart created decoupaged lamps, mirrors, tables, chests and other one of a kind objets d'art.
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Early in 1954, visiting Paris, Gloria Stuart first saw the Impressionist paintings at the Jeu de Paume museum.
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Gloria Stuart took classes from Frank Nagata, colleague of John Naka, a bonsai master in Los Angeles, joined Nagata's bonsai club, Baiko-En, and became one of the first Anglo members of the California Bonsai Society.
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In 1975, after nearly thirty years out of the business, Gloria Stuart decided to return to acting.
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Gloria Stuart got an agent and was immediately cast in a small role as a customer in a store in the ABC television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery.
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Gloria Stuart invited him to dinner, and they fell in love.
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When Gloria Stuart first followed Ritchie into his studio and watched him pull a printed page from his 1839 English iron Albion hand press, she wanted to do it, too.
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In 1984, Gloria Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer, but successfully treated the disease with a lumpectomy followed by radiation.
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Gloria Stuart created large artist's books and books in miniature.
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Gloria Stuart filmed and made recordings for several documentaries, did more looping and dubbing for Cameron, and received offers for additional films.
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Gloria Stuart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Gloria Stuart was one of the few Golden Age stars to attend the ceremony, with contemporaries Fay Wray, Bob Hope, and Milton Berle attending.
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Gloria Stuart later parodied her role in a music video for the Hanson song "River" alongside "Weird Al" Yankovic who directed the video.
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For both awards, Gloria Stuart received a standing ovation from her peers.
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Gloria Stuart made her debut at The Hollywood Bowl on July 19,1998, reading the poem, Standing Stone, Paul McCartney's oratorio for orchestra and chorus.
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Gloria Stuart was asked by the producer and star, Kate Capshaw, to join her cast of The Love Letter, which she filmed in Rockport, Massachusetts.
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Gloria Stuart made guest appearances on several television series, including the 2000 science fiction series The Invisible Man; Touched by an Angel, and General Hospital.
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In 2006, Gloria Stuart donated her screen printing equipment to Mills College, where an exhibition of her work was held.
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On June 19,2010, despite her illness, Gloria Stuart appeared in person to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild for her years of service.
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Gloria Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 94, many decades after she had quit smoking.
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Gloria Stuart underwent radiation treatment, but in time the cancer returned and she underwent a shorter course of radiation.
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Gloria Stuart died six years after her initial diagnosis and reached her centenary.
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Gloria Stuart celebrated her 100th birthday on July 4,2010, hosted by James Cameron and Suzy Amis as well as family and friends at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills.
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Gloria Stuart was a skilled amateur chef and hosted frequent dinner parties in Hollywood.
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Gloria Stuart's style is based on the intricacies of composition.
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Gloria Stuart's mother Alice was an avid cook, producing specialties from the San Joaquin Valley, where Gloria Stuart's mother's family lived for generations.
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Gloria Stuart was a co-founding member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, which formed in 1936.
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In 1938, as a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, Gloria Stuart was on the Executive Board of the California State Democratic Committee.
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Gloria Stuart died from respiratory failure at her home in Los Angeles on September 26,2010.