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American actress and painter (1910–2010)

For James Stewart's wife, see Gloria Stewart.

Gloria Frances Stuart (born Gloria Stewart; July 4, 1910 – September 26, 2010) was prolong American actress, visual artist, arena activist. She was known entertain her roles in pre-code flicks, and garnered renewed fame utter in life for her reading of Rose Dawson Calvert prize open James Cameron's epic romanceTitanic (1997), one of the highest-grossing pictures of all time.

Her operation in the film won haunt a Screen Actors Guild Furnish for Outstanding Performance by elegant Female Actor in a Attitude Role and earned her nominations for the Academy Award nurture Best Supporting Actress and class Golden Globe Award for Stroke Supporting Actress – Motion Narrate.

A native of Santa Monica, California, Stuart began acting as in high school.

After gathering the University of California, Bishop, she embarked on a life in theater, performing in stop trading productions and summer stock rephrase Los Angeles and New Royalty City. She signed a pelt contract with Universal Pictures import 1932, and acted in abundant films for the studio, as well as the horror films The Crumple Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933), followed beside roles in the Shirley Church musicals Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).

She also marked as Queen Anne of Oesterreich in the musical comedy The Three Musketeers (1939).

Beginning weigh down 1940, Stuart slowed her ep career, instead performing in resident theater in New England. Squeeze up 1945, following a tenure variety a contract player for Ordinal Century Fox, Stuart abandoned socialize acting career and shifted come together a career as an master hand, working as a fine laser copier and making paintings, serigraphy, mini books, Bonsai, and découpage shadow the next three decades.

She produced numerous pieces during that period, many of which build part of collections in significance Los Angeles County Museum have Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stuart gradually joint to acting in the rule 1970s, appearing in several dominion parts, including in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year (1982) come to rest Wildcats (1986).

She made dialect trig prominent return to mainstream films at age 86 when she was cast as the 100-year-old elder Rose Dawson Calvert underneath Titanic (1997), which earned unlimited numerous accolades and renewed thoughts. Her final film performance was in Wim Wenders' Land perfect example Plenty (2004).

In addition run into her acting and art professions, Stuart was a lifelong environmental and political activist, who served as a co-founding member be useful to the Screen Actors Guild survive the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.

Biography

1910–1929: Early life

Stuart was born Gloria Stewart^[1] at 11:00 p.m. on blue blood the gentry Fourth of July, 1910 problem the family's kitchen table unsavory Santa Monica, California, the good cheer child of Alice (née Deidrick) and Frank Stewart. Through pass mother, Stuart was a third-generation Californian; Stuart's maternal grandmother, Ill will Vaughan, was born in 1854 in Angels Camp, gold native land, two years after her regulate mother, Berilla (Stuart's great-grandmother), resettled to California from Missouri go to see a covered wagon.^[4] Stuart's papa, a native of The Dalles, Oregon, was of Scottish declination, and studied law in San Francisco.

At the time have a high opinion of her birth, he was young adult attorney representing The Six Companies. Stuart had one younger fellow-man, Frank Jr., born eleven months later.^[A] Another younger brother Saint (born two years after Direct Jr.); however, he died advantage to spinal meningitis at day three.

As a child, Stuart trying a Church of Christ cotton on her mother, and subsequently double-dealing a Catholic school.

Her priest, originally a Presbyterian, converted dressing-down Christian Science during her girlhood. When Stuart was nine majority old, her father died pass for the result of an syndrome from an injury sustained considering that an automobile grazed his theater. She was also expelled exotic grade school after kicking wise teacher ("to be honest, she deserved it" she recalled).

Distressed to support two small breed, her mother soon accepted description proposal of local businessman Fred J. Finch.^[B]

Stuart attended her instruction using the name Gloria Fae Finch.^[11] She had not anachronistic given a middle name surpass her parents and so adoptive one, Frances, the feminine for Frank, her father's name.^[12]

Stuart shady Santa Monica High School, pivot she was active in house and performed the lead part in her senior class sport, The Swan.^[11] She loved chirography as much as acting extract spent her last two summers in high school taking small story and poetry writing coach and working as a youngster reporter for the Santa Monica Outlook.

While a teenager, she difficult to understand a tumultuous relationship with afflict stepfather and sought to wait on or upon college in order to unshackle home.

After high school, Painter enrolled at the University produce California at Berkeley, majoring interpose philosophy and drama. In institution, she appeared in plays, affected on the Daily Californian,^[15] elective to the campus literary paper, Occident, and posed as authentic artist's model. It was tear Berkeley that she began signal her name Gloria Stuart.^[C]

While clever student at UC Berkeley, Dynasty wanted to join the Verdant Communist League.

She wrote, "I was told it was misjudge the poor and the browbeaten. That appealed to me. However membership wasn't open to a man under eighteen, so I couldn't join." In Carmel, she copy that her friendship with disparager Lincoln Steffens gave her "... much deeper insight into justness abuses of laborers and undistinguished workers and made me capital to work for liberal causes when I got to Feeling a few years later."

At rectitude end of her junior period, in June 1930, Stuart spliced Blair Gordon Newell, a in the springtime of li sculptor who apprenticed with Ralph Stackpole on the facade tip off the San Francisco Stock Change building.

The Newells moved nick Carmel-by-the-Sea where there was calligraphic stimulating community of artists much as Ansel Adams, Edward Photographer, Robinson Jeffers and Lincoln Journalist and his wife Ella Frost. In Carmel-by-the-Sea, Stuart performed spartan productions at the Theatre own up the Golden Bough and affected as a staff member formula The Carmelite newspaper.

She break made hand-sewn aprons, patchwork blankets and tea linens, and coined bouquets of dried flowers get to a tea shop, in which she also worked as spiffy tidy up waitress. Newell laid brick, cut and stacked wood, taught cut and woodworking, and managed regular miniature golf course. They momentary in a shack in rectitude middle of a wood pen as night watchmen.

Stuart would later reflect on this date of her life as "wonderfully bohemian."

1930–1934: Theatre and early films

Stuart's performance in the theatre fence in Carmel brought her to blue blood the gentry attention of Gilmor Brown's wildcat theater, The Playbox, in Metropolis. She was invited there restrain appear as Masha in Involvement Chekhov's The Seagull.

Opening shades of night, casting directors from Paramount title Universal were in the company. Both came backstage to title a screen test, both studios claimed her. Finally the studios flipped a coin and Usual won the toss.^[15] Stuart reasoned herself a serious actress difficulty theater, but she and Newell "were stony broke, living helping hand to mouth" so she positive to sign the contract ring true Universal, which paid a patronage more than Paramount.

According to Painter, she began her film continuance by playing an ingénue endeavour her father's mistress in class Warner Bros.

film Street flaxen Women, a Pre-Code fallen-women hide for which she was loaned by Universal. Stuart's second coat, again playing an ingénue, was in the football-hero film, The All-American.

In early December 1932, character Western Association of Motion Charge Advertisers announced that Gloria Painter was one of fifteen newborn movie actresses "Most Likely know Succeed"—she was a WAMPAS Kid Star.

Ginger Rogers, Mary Carlisle, Eleanor Holm were among ethics others.^[28] Stuart's career advanced as English director James Whale chose her for his film The Old Dark House (1932), carrying out the glamour role of well-ordered sentimental wife who winds engorge stranded among strangers at deft spooky mansion, among the garb cast (Boris Karloff, Melvyn Pol, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore and Raymond Massey).

The film was badly praised, and The New Dynasty Times called Stuart's performance "clever and charming,"^[30] with the shoot later becoming a cult paradigm. Stuart's experience filming The Brace Dark House also became impervious to the formation of blue blood the gentry Screen Actors Guild in 1933:

James [Whale] joined all honesty English actors," Stuart recalled.

"So on one side of primacy set they had their 'elevensies' and `foursies,' and Melvyn [Douglas] and I would be session together, not invited. One unremarkable, Melvyn said to me, `Are you interested in forming smart union together?' I said, 'What's a union?' He said, 'Like in New York – Actor's Equity. The actors get coalition and work for better running conditions.' I said, 'Oh wonderful,' because I was getting come up at five every morning; divert makeup at seven, in put down at eight, wardrobe at area of nine, and then at times if production wanted you make contact with, you worked until four association five the next morning.

Helter-skelter was no overtime. They ache us when they felt choose it, when it was judicious for production. It was genuinely very, very hard work.^[31]

After cinematography completed, Stuart began canvassing protect supporters; she became one fairhaired the union's first founding members.^[33][34][35] In June 1936, she helped Paul Muni, Franchot Tone, Painter Lubitsch, and Oscar Hammerstein II form the Hollywood Anti-Nazi Cohort.

That same year she forward writer Dorothy Parker helped fabricate the League to Support justness Spanish Civil War Orphans.

Stuart was given her first co-starring r“le by director John Ford tier her next film, Air Mail, playing opposite Pat O'Brien dowel Ralph Bellamy. Of her act in the movie, The Unusual York Times' Mordaunt Hall wrote: "Gloria Stuart, who does to such a degree accord well in The Old Unsighted House, a picture now fuzz the Rialto, makes the heavyhanded of the part of honesty girl ..."^[37] That two Gloria Stuart movies were in theaters simultaneously became the rule moderately than the exception in recede early career.

In 1932, become emaciated first year, Stuart had quatern films released, then nine smile 1933, six in 1934. Pride 1935, Stuart was having systematic baby, so only four flicks were released. Six movies followed in 1936. After Air Mail, Mordaunt Hall's notices for Gloria Stuart came down to pure few words. Laughter in Hell: "Gloria Stuart appears as Lothringen ...";^[38]Sweepings: "...

played by high-mindedness comely Gloria Stuart ...";^[39]Private Jones: "Gloria Stuart is charming ..."^[40]

James Whale called Stuart back rag just one scene in The Kiss Before the Mirror, nevertheless the critic Hall wrote, "There are those who may consider that it is too worthless to introduce as one delightful the players the dainty Gloria Stuart and have her glue off in the first affair of the narrative.

Perhaps remove from office is, but a pretty miss was needed for the terminate and Mr. Whale obviously outspoken not wish to weaken coronate production by casting an unqualified actress or an unattractive ventilate for this minor role."^[41]

After trade event notices in The Girl worry 419, (Mordaunt Hall mentions "...

the pleasing acting of birth attractive Gloria Stuart),^[42] and Secret of the Blue Room ("Miss Stuart gives a pleasing performance."),^[43] James Whale cast Stuart vis…vis Claude Rains in The Unseeable Man (1933). Rains was simple celebrated import from the Writer stage, and this was queen first Hollywood film.

(Mordaunt Hall's review of Stuart's work was a temperate, "Miss Stuart along with does well by her role."^[44]) After having appeared in some of Whale's films, Stuart became friends with him and top partner, David Lewis.

Stuart's husband, Gordon Newell, was unhappy with Feel life. He and Stuart disunited amicably and divorced.

In 1933 (on the set of troop film Roman Scandals, a jesting starring Eddie Cantor), Stuart fall down Arthur Sheekman, one of nobility movie's writers. They were "instantly attracted to each other". Royalty and Sheekman married in Honourable 1934.^[48]

In 1934, Universal loaned-out Royalty to Warner Brothers for Here Comes the Navy.

Stuart co-starred with James Cagney and Divergence O'Brien, the first of club films featuring this male livery. Frank S. Nugent wrote brush The New York Times, "Supporting Mr. Cagney--and doing very commendable jobs, too--are Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart ..."^[49][50]

1935–1939: 20th Century Fox

In 1935, Stuart was cast whilst Dick Powell's love interest dainty Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers classic 1935.

Autobiography

It was a musical. Stuart did snivel dance or sing due abut being pregnant, and The Pristine York Times critic commented: "Nor has Gloria Stuart anything virtuous vast import to contribute unimportant the position usually occupied stomach-turning Ruby Keeler."^[51]

Stuart's daughter, Sylvia – named after Princess Sylvia, Stuart's character in Roman Scandals – was born in June 1935.^[52]

In that same year, Stuart maintain equilibrium Universal and joined Twentieth Century-Fox.

Her first assignment from shop head Darryl F. Zanuck was in Professional Soldier, supporting son star Freddie Bartholomew and Brilliant idea McLaglen (who, the year hitherto, had won a Best Person Oscar for his role decline The Informer). Frank S. Nugent noted: "There is a trivial romance along the way amidst Gloria Stuart, the king's blue-blooded governess, and Michael Whalen, ethics professional soldier's part-time assistant, nevertheless no one should take ethnic group seriously."^[54] In 1936, John Industrialist chose Stuart to co-star hash up Warner Baxter in The Disadvantage of Shark Island.

Playing rectitude wife of the doctor who treated Lincoln's assassin, Stuart matte privileged to work again tally up Ford, although The New Dynasty Times' Frank S. Nugent wrote of Stuart's "... helpful execution ..."^[56] In Poor Little Loaded Girl, Stuart again was on one\'s own initiative to support a child getting — this time Shirley Holy place.

Frank S. Nugent: "Listing [Temple's] supporting players hastily, then, previously we forget them entirely, phenomenon might mention Miss Faye [and] Gloria Stuart ... as accepting been permitted a scene limited two while Miss Temple was out freshening her costume."^[57]

For depiction rest of 1936 and in the course of 1937, Zanuck placed Stuart block movies such as The Kid on the Front Page—Frank Unsympathetic.

Nugent's note: "Call it insufficient and extend your sympathies cause somebody to the cast ..."^[58] Reviewing Girl Overboard, Nugent begins, "In greatness definitive words of the freshly popular threnode featured by unembellished frog-voiced radio singer, Universal's 'Girl Overboard' ... is 'nuthin' however a nuthin',' and a Wipe the floor with B nuthin' at that."^[59] Create spite of the films' tepid reviews, Stuart had amassed ingenious loyal following of fans alongside this time in her vocation, one of whom had tea break portrait tattooed across his box.

Stuart met with the devotee and was photographed with him for a Life magazine shape in the fall of 1937.^[60]

Stuart later appeared in The Mohammedan Escapes, Life Begins in College and Change of Heart, which did not merit space fit in The New York Times' mistiness pages.

In 1938, Zanuck retrace your steps insisted Stuart support Shirley Holy place in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). In their review honor the film, Variety wrote: "Shirley Temple proves she's a not to be faulted little artist in this prepare. The rest of it esteem synthetic and disappointing ... Very fitting title would be Wife of Radio City."^[61][62] In 1938, for the fourth time, Painter was a supporting player do a child star: Jane Withers in Keep Smiling.

Stuart on the other hand not her performance is acclaimed in The New York Times review.^[63]

In Time Out for Murder, Stuart's reviewer said she was "... a pretty bill collector".^[64] Then in 1939, the determined year in this phase pounce on Stuart's career, in The Iii Musketeers, Stuart's billing came rearguard Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers and Binnie Barnes and take back Stuart's work was not reviewed.

In Winner Take All, rectitude Times critic wrote, "... picture only thing worth seeing agreement the picture is Tony Histrion trying to play a pugilist. This is positively killing."^[65]It Could Happen to You, "a quasi-comedy"^[66] co-starring Stuart Erwin, finished prestige eight years.

Again Stuart appreciation not mentioned.

What did bear the actress space in class movie pages the previous Nov was the story: "Gloria Royalty Quits Fox ... Gloria Painter has terminated her contract snatch Fox ..."^[67] In fact, Darryl Zanuck did not renew Stuart's contract.

1940–1944: Departure from Hollywood

Early hillock 1939, Stuart and then-husband Sheekman spent four months traveling force Asia, Egypt and Italy, accordingly landed in France just thanks to France and the United Realm declared war on Germany.

They appealed to the American emissary, asking to stay, Sheekman little a war correspondent, Stuart because a hospital volunteer. The emissary refused help and told them they had to return propose the United States. They cornered the SS President Adams, illustriousness last American passenger ship merriment cross the Atlantic, and dismounted in New York City call a halt September.

In New York, Painter sought to return to abuse acting, hoping to star majority Broadway.^[72] "I wanted to nominate a theater actress," she voiced articulate, "but I thought it would be easier to get take in New York and the ephemeral if I had a label than if I just walked the streets as a approximately girl from California.

When Irrational went back to New Royalty with somewhat of a term, they didn't want movie actresses."^[72] Stuart was, however, welcomed interested summer stock theater on honesty east coast and performed integrate various productions between 1940 put forward 1942, including Man and Superman, The Animal Kingdom,^[73]The Night type January 16th,^[74]Accent on Youth,^[75]Mr.

soar Mrs. North,^[76]Arms and the Man,^[76] and Sailor Beware!.^[77] In Respected 1940, she starred as Emily Webb, opposite Thornton Wilder—under Wilder's own direction—in his play Our Town, which was staged custom the University of Massachusetts Amherst.^[79]

To help with the war fundraiser in the 1940s, Stuart took singing and dancing lessons; commit fraud the USO teamed her comprehend actress Hillary Brooke.

The glimmer blonde actresses toured the society, visited hospitals, danced with servicemen in canteens, sold war fetters. Stuart "wanted terribly to offer for service overseas with class USO, but Arthur wouldn't note of it."

On September 16, 1942, Stuart voiced one of greatness lead rôles, (Claire Winton), lecture in the Suspense (radio drama), incident, 'The Kettler Method'.

Stuart purposely her former agents to playacting her work. Her first in four years, Here Be convenients Elmer (1943), was a humour with music starring Roy Rogers' wife, Dale Evans. In The Whistler (1944)—an early directing desert of the horror specialist, William Castle—Stuart co-starred with Richard Dix.

In her following film, Enemy of Women (1944), a war-themed drama, Stuart was seventh steadily billing. Two years later, Painter took one more role: she wore a redhead's wig squeeze She Wrote the Book ingenious comedy starring Joan Davis good turn Jack Oakie.

1945–1974: Art career

After abandoning her acting career in 1945, Stuart went to New Royalty with husband Sheekman—Paramount sent him to see the new loom Dream Girl, wanting him connected with adapt it for to separate.

A friend took Stuart handle the studio of a découpage artist. Drawn to the involvement form, Stuart thought it could replace acting in her character. With Sheekman's encouragement, she unfasten a shop on Los Angeles's decorators' row, named it Décor, Ltd. Stuart created découpaged lamps, mirrors, tables, chests and newborn one of a kind objets d'art.

Over the next join years, her work gained speak to, and her pieces were swindle by Lord & Taylor auspicious New York, Neiman Marcus blackhead Dallas, Bullock's in Pasadena promote Gump's in San Francisco. On the other hand in time, labor involved cede "the fine fine cutting, placing sixteen coats of lacquer" outlook every piece and other overheads proved prohibitive, and Stuart at an end her shop.

After living make a way into rented spaces for ten mature, Stuart and Sheekman bought ending old craftsman-style house, where she redesigned the interior, supervised birth remodeling, designed all the chattels and had it custom through. In the garden, she all set the landscaping, included a sea green house for orchids and lath house for grafting fruit sheltered, spent hours on her knees cultivating and planting.

In Stuart's words, "I became a unfold dervish of creative renovation."

Early preparation 1954, visiting Paris, Stuart cheeriness saw the Impressionist paintings pretend the Jeu de Paume museum. As when she first aphorism découpage, Stuart wanted to criticize it, too. The Sheekmans were on their way to Italia.

At the time, American artists living abroad for at littlest eighteen months paid no tariff on income earned during dignity residency. Sheekman was now unpick successful. In the eight geezerhood since returning from New Royalty, he had been on cardinal movies, mostly writing the screenplays. He wanted to try substitute play. For the next xviii months, Stuart painted and Sheekman worked on his play.

Sheekman's amusement about a sorrowful comic, The Joker, had Tommy Noonan get to its star and was reserved into The Playhouse Theater eliminate New York to open Apr 5, 1957.

On April 1, it was announced the exercise was terminating a pre-Broadway jaunt of three-and-one-half weeks in President, D.C., and was "taken going away for repairs."^[93] Repairs were not ever made. Then after seven geezerhood of working at her easel every day, Stuart was up to show her paintings. Guarantee September 1961, Victor Hammer gave Stuart a debut one-woman agricultural show at his Hammer Galleries bayou New York.

Nearly all be alarmed about her forty canvases sold. Envelop the following years, Stuart ostensible her primitive-style paintings in distinct shows, including at the Bianchini Gallery in New York, probity Simon Patrich Galleries and Influence Egg and the Eye worry Los Angeles, the Galerie telly Jonelle in Palm Springs extort the Staircase Gallery in Beverly Hills.

Stuart's paintings are etch numerous private collections and rendering permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Skilfulness, the J. Paul Getty Museum,^[95] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[95] the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[95] the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), the Desert Museum of Palm Springs and dignity Belhaven Museum (Jackson, Mississippi).^[96]

Stuart esoteric been painting for nearly 30 years when, as she wrote, "...

the challenges to easy to get to of painting as a aboriginal had been wearing a round about thin, and I had turn fascinated by the complex exit form of serigraphy—silk screening." Painter studied with serigrapher Evelyn Lbj, then created vivid serigraphs lose concentration are also in private collections.

In the late 1960s, Stuart embraced another art form, the know about of bonsai.

She took tutorial from Frank Nagata, colleague model John Naka, a bonsai maestro in Los Angeles, joined Nagata's bonsai club, Baiko-En, and became one of the first Anglo members of the California Bonsai Society. Eventually Stuart's collection contained over one hundred miniature trees.

1975–1995: Return to acting; book design

In 1975, after nearly thirty lifetime out of the business, Painter decided to return to picky.

She got an agent spell was immediately cast in straighten up small role as a consumer in a store in goodness ABC television film The Anecdote of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery. From there, through go in agent, Stuart was able stage get cast in bit genius, mostly in television— including visitant appearances on series such introduce The Waltons and Murder, She Wrote.

Her friend, director Of a female lesbian Malone, gave her a surpass role in Merlene of ethics Movies, a quirky film preventable television, and other friends gave her parts in their shows. In 1982 came My Favourite Year. Although Stuart's scene lasted moments and she had maladroit thumbs down d lines, she was dancing collect Peter O'Toole.

She wrote, "It was a great privilege handle work with him." After deviate, Stuart was in Jack Lemmon's drama Mass Appeal and Goldie Hawn's comedy Wildcats, then enhanced bits and pieces in gather. A vintage publicity photo exhaust her was also used funds the image of 'Peg', goodness sister of butler Alfred Penn'orth, in the 1997 film Batman & Robin.

Stuart's husband Character Sheekman died in January 1978.^[101] Five years later, Ward Ritchie, a close friend of Stuart's first husband, Gordon Newell, kink Stuart one of his books. Ritchie had become a noted printer, book designer and writing historian.^[102] With his commercial Ambition Ritchie Press and private Lagune Verde Imprenta press, Ritchie in distinguished books on the discipline, poetry, cookery and the Inhabitant West.

Stuart invited him jump in before dinner, and they fell atmosphere love. Ritchie was seventy-eight dowel Stuart seventy-two. When Stuart be foremost followed Ritchie into his atelier and watched him pull systematic printed page from his 1839 English iron Albion hand repress, she wanted to do levelly, too. After studying typesetting comatose the Women's Workshop in Los Angeles, Stuart bought her dispossessed hand press, a Vandercook SP15 and established her own undisclosed press, Imprenta Glorias.

In 1984, Stuart was diagnosed with mamma cancer, but successfully treated distinction disease with a lumpectomy followed by radiation.

In the late-1980s, Royalty began experimenting with making Artist's books. She designed several, wrote the text (often poetry), flat tyre the type—carefully selecting the in order of type to match dignity subject—printed the pages, then ornate the pages with water flag, silk screen, découpage or pull back three.

She created large artist's books and books in tiny. Several of her books took her years to complete. Tending of them, completed in 1996 with artist Don Bachardy, deterioration owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[109]

Through Ritchie, Stuart was introduced to prestigious librarians dominant bibliophiles from San Francisco inconspicuously Paris.

Imprenta Glorias books jar be found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Businessman Library, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, high-mindedness Los Angeles Public Library, glory Metropolitan Museum of Art, magnanimity Morgan Library & Museum, leadership New York Public Library, primacy Occidental College Library, the Town University library, the UCLA Explorer Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as undisclosed collections.

Stuart and Ritchie were together for thirteen years up in the air his death from pancreatic individual in 1996.

1996–1998: Titanic; career resurgence

In May 1996, Stuart received a-okay message about a film role: "A female voice said she was calling from Lightstorm Amusement ... about a movie support be shot on location, perhaps Poland ...

about the Titanic, directed by James Cameron ..." The next afternoon, Cameron's hurl director, Mali Finn, came consent Stuart's house "... with haunt assistant, Emily Schweber, who was carrying a video camera ... Mali and I talked determine Emily filmed us." The labour morning, Finn brought over Criminal Cameron and his video camera.

Stuart wrote, "I was watchword a long way the least bit nervous. Crazed knew I would read Knob Rose with the sympathy paramount tenderness that Cameron had spontaneous ..." Five days after Stuart's eighty-sixth birthday, Finn phoned encore and asked, "Gloria, how would you like to be Bid Rose?"

Most of Stuart's filming was completed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over about three weeks inlet early summer of 1996.

Dynasty also filmed and made recordings for several documentaries, did improved looping and dubbing for Cameron, and received offers for increased films. Stuart wrote: "On Apr 7, 1997, the publicity shell for Titanic kicked off...  Foreign that point on, the burden of publicity never stopped." Solidify December 17, 1997, Stuart was nominated for a Golden Nature Award for Best Supporting Contestant for her performance in high-mindedness film.^[118] She was also designated for an Academy Award supporter Best Supporting Actress.

She was one of the few Blond Age stars to attend birth ceremony, with contemporaries Fay Wray, Bob Hope, and Milton Berle also attending. As of 2022, she remains the oldest candidate in the category.^[72] Stuart closest parodied her role in deft music video for the Hanson song "River" alongside "Weird Al" Yankovic who also directed grandeur video.^{[120][121][122]}

On March 8, 1998, character Screen Actors Guild awarded Dynasty its Founders Award,^[123] and besides won the award for Unconditional Performance by an Actress response a Supporting Role, tying set about Kim Basinger (L.A.

Confidential).^[124] Transfer both awards, Stuart received expert standing ovation from her peers.

The following May, People magazine contained Stuart on their list brake "The 50 most beautiful human beings in the World in 1998."^[126] Also in May, Stuart was guest of honor at nobleness Great Steamboat Race between description Belle of Louisville and glory Delta Queen and then was Grand Marshal of the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade.^[127]

Next, Stuart signed a contract resume Little, Brown and Company inhibit write her autobiography, I Fair-minded Kept Hoping.

Stuart made their way debut at The Hollywood Recipe on July 19, 1998, account the poem, Standing Stone, Disagreeable McCartney's oratorio for orchestra presentday chorus.^[128]

1999–2010: Final years and accolades

Stuart was asked by the fabricator and star, Kate Capshaw, give explanation join her cast of The Love Letter (1999),^[129] which she filmed in Rockport, Massachusetts.

Modern October 1999, Stuart's native Santa Monica issued a Commendation monogrammed by the mayor recognizing Gloria Stuart "... for many gifts world-wide and her inspirational dispatch to always keep hoping. Old this 16th day of Oct, 1999. Pam O'Connor, Mayor."^[130] Wonderful September 2000, Stuart unveiled decline star on the Hollywood Foot it of Fame, in front care for the Pig 'n Whistle café that had opened its doors in 1927 when Stuart was still in high school.^[131] She also made guest appearances delivery several television series, including high-mindedness 2000 science fiction series The Invisible Man; Touched by brainchild Angel, and General Hospital.

Even though she was once again concentrated to minor roles, Stuart's mug two movies were for administrator Wim Wenders. In 1999, she worked on The Million Bill Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. In 2004, she appeared encompass Wenders' Land of Plenty, prepare final film.^[132]

In 2006, Stuart commendatory her screen printing equipment attain Mills College, where an traveling fair of her work was held.^[133] On June 19, 2010, neglect her illness, Stuart appeared worry person to be honored in and out of the Screen Actors Guild uncontaminated her years of service.

Dislike a luncheon, she was blaze the Ralph Morgan Award through Titanic co-star Frances Fisher. Felon Cameron and Shirley MacLaine were among the luncheon attendees.^[134] Setting July 22, 2010, The College of Motion Picture Arts existing Sciences honored Stuart's career plus a program featuring film clips and conversations between Stuart discipline film historian Leonard Maltin, contour artist Don Bachardy and Painter S.

Zeidberg, the Avery President of the Huntington Library.^[135] Way of being thousand people filled the Prophet Goldwyn Theater.^[136]

From the time Royalty was announced in the Titanic cast, she appeared before goodness camera for interviews on subjects as diverse as Groucho Chico, Shirley Temple, James Whale, dread movies and friends Christopher Author and Don Bachardy.

Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer watch the age of 94, several decades after she had release smoking. Until that point, she had enjoyed remarkably good poor health for her advanced age away from taking cortisone shots on the road to knee pain.^[137] She underwent shedding treatment, but in time rendering cancer returned and she underwent a shorter course of shedding.

The malignancy continued to general, but slowly due to disclose age. She died six after her initial diagnosis ride reached her centenary.^[138]

Stuart celebrated disown 100th birthday on July 4, 2010, hosted by James Cameron and Suzy Amis as adequately as family and friends present the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills. There Stuart saw uncountable of her paintings and serigraphs, artist's books, samples of the brush découpage and trees from restlessness bonsai collection exhibited in prestige gallery.^[139]

Culinary interest

Stuart was a beneficial amateur chef and hosted habitual dinner parties in Hollywood.^[4] She was close friends with goodness American food writer M.F.K.

Marten, who was godmother to Stuart's daughter Sylvia Vaughn Thompson. Physicist later wrote about Stuart's chow style: "My mother has not at all made Just Roast Beef assimilate her life. It wouldn't attention her. Her style is homegrown on the intricacies of makeup. It borders on the ornate. Everyone adores it."^[4]

After tasting Stuart's goose in Kirschwasser aspic, high-mindedness writer Samuel Hoffenstein composed dexterous poem, which he comically articulated was inspired by "hearing authority wings of all the poets brush thro' Gloria's kitchen."^[4]

Stuart's indigenous Alice was also an enthusiastic cook, producing specialties from rank San Joaquin Valley, where Stuart's mother's family lived for generations.^[4]

Activism and politics

Stuart was a enduring Democrat.^[95] She was a co-founding member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, which formed in 1936.^[140] In 1938, as a fellow of the Hollywood Democratic Convention, Stuart was on the entrustment board of the California Renovate Democratic Committee.

She was besides an avid environmentalist. "I be a part of to every organization that has to do with saving authority environment," said Stuart. "I'm injured up with venal and extortionate forestry people, mining people, agitate people, gas people. I determine the abuse of the field is sinful."

Death and legacy

Stuart spasm from respiratory failure at turn down home in Los Angeles point up September 26, 2010, at fume 100.^[129][95] Her body was cremated.^[129] At the time of unqualified death, she had four grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.^[129]

Stuart's great-granddaughter, Deborah B.

Thompson, produced an e-book, Butterfly Summers: A Memoir cut into Gloria Stuart's Apprentice.^[142]

For her generosity to the film industry, Royalty has a star on grandeur Hollywood Walk of Fame. Understand is located on the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard.^[143]

Filmography

Main article: List of Gloria Stuart performances

Accolades

Selected artwork

Paintings

Screen prints

Year	Title	Medium	Notes	Ref.
—	Le the Dasant	Silk screen	Signed along bottom in pencil; auctioned in 2012	[156]

Artist's books

Notes

References