Posted on 09/27/2010 8:15:59 PM PDT by Justaham
Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in "Titanic," has died. She was 100.
Stuart died of respiratory failure Sunday night at her Los Angeles home, her daughter, Sylvia Thompson, said Monday. The actress had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago and had beaten breast cancer about 20 years ago, Thompson said.
"She did not believe in illness. She paid no attention to it, and it served her well," Thompson said. "She had a great life. I'm not sad. I'm happy for her."
In her youth, Stuart was a blond beauty who starred in B pictures as well as some higher-profile ones such as "The Invisible Man," Busby Berkeley's "Gold Diggers of 1935" and two Shirley Temple movies, "Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." But by the mid-1940s she had retired.
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She did a fantasic job in that film. So many other elderly Americans play the part of aging gracefully and graciously. We are blessed beyond measure to have them.
Well she made it.
Still, my friend is 100 years and 3 months old. Blood pressure is better than most people over the age of 30 and outlook on life is always a joyful disposition that is met with a smile and a laugh.
When people ask her what the secret to a long life is she replies:
“It’s a great life if you don’t weaken”.
To which I added:
“Don’t take life so seriously. You won’t live through it anyway”.
Yep, I heard about this on tv a short while ago. Can’t knock 100 years. I actually met Stuart several years before she was in “Titanic.” Seemed rather surreal a few years later, when she received all that unexpected, new-found fame. Especially as it was so many years after her 1930s heyday! I was quite happy for her.
an absolute beauty
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