Titanic: Star Gloria Stuart Dies at Age 100

A news By yahoofreeshop:Beloved Hollywood actress Gloria Stuart, who played the older version of Kate Winslet’s character in “Titanic,” has died at the age of 100.

Stuart passed away on Sunday at her Los Angeles home.Her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson, tells the newspaper Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer several years ago and had also previously battled breast cancer.

The actress began working in Hollywood in the 1930s and starred in over 40 films during her career, including The Invisible Man, Here Comes the Navy and Poor Little Rich Girl.

After a nearly a decade away from the spotlight, she returned to the big screen in 1997, as the 101-year-old version of Kate Winslet’s character Rose in James Cameron’s Titanic.

Stuart published her autobiography, “I Just Kept Hoping,” in 1999, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000.

Biography for Gloria Stuart

A news By yahoofreeshop:Date of Birth:4 July 1910, Santa Monica, California,USA.Date of Death,26 September 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA (Lung cancer)

Birth Name:Gloria Frances Stewart,Height:5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

Gloria Stuart was born in Santa Monica, California, did some acting while in college at the University of California at Berkeley and later worked on stage in little theater productions. Universal enticed the glamourous blond actress with the assurance of “big plans,” but outside of her films for director James Whale (The Old Dark House (1932).

he Invisible Man (1933), and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)), that promise went unkept as the studio stuck her in a long series of unmemorable program pictures. After a stint at 20th Century-Fox turned out the same way, Stuart went back to the stage and then (in the mid-’40s) retired from acting. Since then, she has taken up painting and has had one-woman shows in New York, Austria, and Italy. In the 1970s, she returned to acting. Widowed since 1978 (her husband was screenwriter Arthur Sheekman), she was Oscar-nominated for her performance as the 100-year-old survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1997).