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Gloria Stuart
Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, visual artist and activist. She 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 (1997), one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Her performance in the film won her a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female…
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culture · American actress and painter (1910–2010) · television actor · film actor · painter · stage actor · actor · also Gloria Stuart, Gloria Stuart Finch, Gloria Frances Stewart, Gloria Stuart Sheekman, Gloria Frances Stuart, Gloria Fae Finch
Born 4 July 1910 · Died 26 September 2010 · Q189407
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2026· 4 entries
“I was not the least bit nervous. I knew I would read Old Rose with the sympathy and tenderness that Cameron had intended ...”
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“but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California. When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn”
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Public attention spiked: 3,621 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.7× the usual 640, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “As of December 2024, Paul Rudd was the same age as Gloria Stuart when she filmed the 1997 film "Titanic."” Originated as Satire.
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2010· 4 entries
Died 2010-09-26.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Stuart's career with a program featuring film clips and conversations between Stuart and film historian Leonard Maltin, portrait artist Don Bachardy and David S
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Hosted by James Cameron and Suzy Amis as well as family and friends at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills
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Despite her illness, Stuart appeared in person to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild for her years of service
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2006· 1 entry
Stuart donated her screen printing equipment to Mills College, where an exhibition of her work was held
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared in Wenders' Land of Plenty, her final film
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1999· 1 entry
Worked on The Million Dollar Hotel in downtown Los Angeles
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1998· 2 entries
Reading the poem, Standing Stone, Paul McCartney's oratorio for orchestra and chorus
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The Screen Actors Guild awarded Stuart its Founders Award, and also won the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, tying with Kim Basinger (L
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1997· 3 entries
Stuart was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film
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The publicity blitz for Titanic kicked off
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“On April 7, 1997, the publicity blitz for Titanic kicked off... From that point on, the deluge of publicity never stopped.”
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1996· 1 entry
With artist Don Bachardy, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1984· 1 entry
Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer, but successfully treated the disease with a lumpectomy followed by radiation
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1975· 1 entry
After nearly thirty years out of the business, Stuart decided to return to acting
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1954· 1 entry
Visiting Paris, Stuart first saw the Impressionist paintings at the Jeu de Paume museum
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1945· 2 entries
Stuart went to New York with husband Sheekman—Paramount sent him to see the new play Dream Girl, wanting him to adapt it for to screen
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Following a tenure as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox, Stuart abandoned her acting career and shifted to a career as an artist, working as a fine printer and making paintings, serigraphy, miniature books, Bon
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1942· 1 entry
Stuart voiced one of the lead rôles, (Claire Winton), in the Suspense (radio drama), episode, 'The Kettler Method'
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1940· 1 entry
Stuart slowed her film career, instead performing in regional theater in New England
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1939· 2 entries
The last year in this phase of Stuart's career, in The Three Musketeers, Stuart's billing came after Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers and Binnie Barnes and again Stuart's work was not reviewed
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Stuart and then-husband Sheekman spent four months traveling in Asia, Egypt and Italy, then landed in France just as France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany
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1938· 3 entries
For the fourth time, Stuart was a supporting player to a child star: Jane Withers in Keep Smiling
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Zanuck again insisted Stuart support Shirley Temple in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
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As a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, Stuart was on the executive board of the California State Democratic Committee
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1936· 1 entry
John Ford chose Stuart to co-star with Warner Baxter in The Prisoner of Shark Island
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1935· 2 entries
Stuart was cast as Dick Powell's love interest in Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935
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Stuart was having a baby, so only four movies were released
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1934· 1 entry
Universal loaned-out Stuart to Warner Brothers for Here Comes the Navy
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1933· 1 entry
(on the set of her film Roman Scandals, a comedy starring Eddie Cantor), Stuart met Arthur Sheekman, one of the movie's writers
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1932· 3 entries
And acted in numerous films for the studio, including the horror films The Old Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933), followed by roles in the Shirley Temple musicals Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) and Rebecca of
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Her first year, Stuart had four films released, then nine in 1933, six in 1934
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“s comedy-thriller The Old Dark House (1932), in which she wore a tight evening gown and was chased by Boris Karloff as a sinister butler. Stuart recalled how Whale told her:”
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1927· 1 entry
When Stuart was still in high school
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-07-04.
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1854· 1 entry
In Angels Camp, gold country, two years after her own mother, Berilla (Stuart's great-grandmother), relocated to California from Missouri in a covered wagon
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