100-year-old Titanic actress dies

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 on Sunday night at her Los
Angeles home.
In her youth, Stuart was a blonde
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.