WASHINGTON — Gloria Stuart, who became the oldest person nominated for an Academy Award for her role in “Titanic,’’ the record-breaking box-office hit, has died. She was 100.
She died Sunday at her home in West Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing her family. She was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago, the newspaper said.
Ms. Stuart was 87 when director James Cameron’s epic fictional account of passengers aboard the doomed luxury liner Titanic, opened in December 1997. The movie followed Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) as they met, fell in love, navigated the Titanic’s strict class divisions, and then tried to survive after the ship struck an iceberg.
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Ms. Stuart narrates the movie as 101-year-old Rose, who joins treasure hunters searching the Titanic’s wreckage for a legendary diamond necklace. Toward the film’s end, she reveals the necklace she has secretly possessed since the night the ship sank and drops it into the ocean.
After which she passes away and her spirit returns to Titanic to join all the other lost souls. Not a dry eye leaving the place.
The movie earned $1.8 billion worldwide, making it one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Ms. Stuart earned one of the movie’s 14 Academy Award nominations, for best supporting actress. It won 11 Oscars, including one for best picture....
She lost the Oscar to Kim Basinger....
According to her 1999 memoir, “I Just Kept Hoping,’’ she wrote:
“Old Rose in the ‘Titanic’ script grabbed me instantly. I knew that evening the role I wanted and waited for all these many years had arrived!’’
Politically active, Ms. Stuart was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild, formed in 1933, and helped start the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936.
I'm surprised she was passed over for parts.
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Now I am really surprised!
WOW!
Stardom eluded the elegant Gloria Stuart in the 1930s, when she was the leading lady in dozens of movies. (Warner Brothers)
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