TITANIC Co-Star Gloria Stuart Dead At 100

From the AP:

LOS ANGELES – Gloria Stuart, the Hollywood actress of the 1930s who gained an Oscar nomination 60 years later for her role as the spunky survivor in TITANIC, has died. She was 100.

Her grandson, Benjamin Stuart Thompson, says Stuart died in her sleep Sunday night at her Los Angeles home.

In her youth, Stuart was a blond beauty who starred in B pictures as well as higher-profile ones like THE INVISIBLE MAN and two Shirley Temple movies.

She resumed acting occasionally in later years and was selected to play the elderly Titanic survivor portrayed by Kate Winslet as a young woman.

The 1997 TITANIC became the biggest modern blockbuster up to that point. Both Winslet and Stuart, then 87, were nominated for Oscars.

On July 22nd, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honored Stuart’s Oscar-nominated career in film and celebrated her 100th birthday with a program featuring film clips and an onstage conversation between Stuart and her longtime friend, film historian Leonard Maltin, at Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Here’s the interview that Stuart did with Charlie Rose from 1998 at the height of the TITANIC craze. RIP Gloria Stuart.