Gloria Stuart

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Gloria Stuart, 1937

Gloria Frances Stuart (born July 4, 1910 in Santa Monica , California - † September 26, 2010 in Los Angeles , California) was an American actress . In the 1930s she had minor successes with films such as The Invisible and The Prisoner of Shark Island before she retired from the film business. A big comeback celebrated 1997 as Actress of the old Rose in the film Titanic by James Cameron . For her performance, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won a Screen Actors Guild Award , the first great prize of her career.

Life

Gloria Stuart played theater at her school, Santa Monica High School. After graduating from school, she worked in various small theater productions. The big film studio Universal became aware of the blonde actress. In 1932 she made her film debut and in the same year she was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of the Year. A great career was planned with her. She played a major supporting role at the side of Boris Karloff in James Whale's horror comedy The House of Horror . Whale also used her a year later in the horror classic The Invisible Man as the lover of a mad scientist ( Claude Rains ). After a few films, however, it was pushed more and more into the background and ended up in insignificant productions. Due to illness, she missed the role of Hermia in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935 and Olivia de Havilland , later a good friend of Stuart, took on the role instead. She celebrated her last successes in the mid-1930s with Die Goldgräber von 1935 and Der Gefangene der Haifischinsel . Her move to 20th Century Fox didn't change much either and so Stuart decided to go back to the theater in the mid-1940s. She played with success in a one-person play, which she also made guest appearances in Italy and Austria .

In 1934 Stuart married screenwriter Arthur Sheekman for the second time . Her daughter Sylvia comes from this connection. In the 1970s she was increasingly involved in films - primarily television productions. In 1978 her husband died of Alzheimer's disease .

In 1997, Stuart was hired as old rose for the filming of the sinking of the RMS Titanic . For this role, she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. With this nomination, she wrote Oscar history twice: firstly, she was the oldest actress who had ever been nominated up to that point in time (she was already 87 years old), and secondly, two actresses were for the first time for one and the same role in a film nominated in two different categories. Kate Winslet was also nominated for her role as Young Rose, albeit in the Best Actress category.

In 1998 she starred in a music video for the band Hanson . She played her last role in 2004 in Land of Plenty , directed by Wim Wenders . Gloria Stuart died on September 26, 2010 at the age of 100 at her home in West Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia .

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Commons : Gloria Stuart  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, Gloria Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , California