Gloria Stuart dead at 100 years of age

" When James Cameron’s box-office phenomenon, Titanic, came out in late 1997, there were plenty of juicy subplots to savor: the rise of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as worldwide box office stars, the film’s 11 Oscar wins, its meteoric rocket-shot to the the highest-grossing film of all time. But perhaps the sweetest story was the unlikely comeback of 88-year-old actress Gloria Stuart — a Depression-era starlet who returned to the silver screen as the elderly incarnation of Winslet’s Rose Calvert, whose reminiscences of the ill-fated voyage bookend the Oscar-winning film. Stuart, who passed away at her West Los Angeles home yesterday at age 100, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her sentimental (and long-delayed) return performance. But even if she never had her late-in-life Titanic triumph, her career would be well worth remembering…"     PopWatch

 

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