Gloria Stuart

At 100 years old, Gloria Stuart has this physical status:

Gloria Frances Stewart (née Gloria Stewart; 1910-2010), an American actress, visual artist, and activist.

She was first known for her appearances in Pre-Code films, but she would gain more fame in life for her critically acclaimed role in James Cameron's Titanic (1997).

A Screen Actor Guild Award, one Golden Globe nomination, and one Academy Award nomination are among her accolades.

She was nominated at age 86 and is the first person to be nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress. Stuart, a Santa Monica, California, boy, started acting while in high school.

She began a life in theater, appearing in local productions and summer stock in Los Angeles and New York City after attending the University of California, Berkeley.

She began working in 1932 and appeared in many films for Universal Pictures, including the horror films The Old Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933), as well as roles in the Shirley Temple musicals Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).

Queen Anne appeared in the musical comedy The Three Musketeers (1939).

Stuart slowed her film career in 1940, instead performing in regional theater in New England.

Stuart left acting in 1945 and pursued art as an artist, including designing illustrations, serigraphy, miniature books, Bonsai, and découpage for the next three decades, following a career as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox.

During this period, she created many works, some of which are part of exhibits in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart returned to acting in the late 1970s, appearing in several bit scenes, including in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year (1982) and Wildcats (1986).

In Titanic (1997), she made a strong comeback to mainstream cinema as the 102-year-old elder Rose Dawson Calvert, which earned her numerous accolades and renewed interest.

Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), her last film appearance was in Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004).

She died of respiratory disease in September 2010, at the age of 100. Stuart was a lifelong environmental and political activist who served as a co-founding member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, in addition to her acting and art careers.

1910–1929: Early life

Stuart Stewart was born in Santa Monica, California, on the fourth of July, 1910, the first child of Alice (née Deidrick) and Frank Stewart. 6 Stuart was a third-generation Californian, and Alice Vaughan, Stuart's maternal grandmother, was born in 1854 in Angels Camp, gold country, two years after her mother, Berilla (Stuart's great-grandmother), moved to California from Missouri in a covered wagon. 203 Stuart's father, a native of The Dalles, Oregon, was of Scottish descent and studied law in San Francisco. 5 At the time of her birth, he was an advocate for The Six Companies. Frank Jr., his younger brother, and Thomas, a younger brother of Frank Jr. (born two years after Frank Jr.), but he died as a result of spinal meningitis at age three.

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Stuart, as an infant, attended a Church of Christ with her mother and later attended a Catholic school. During her youth, ten her father, a Presbyterian, converted to Christian Science. ten-11 Stuart was born in nine years ago. Her father died as a result of an injury when an automobile grazed his leg. She was also suspended from grade school after kicking her teacher ("to be fair, she deserved it" she recalled). Her mother accepted Fred J's plan shortly after being forced to help two small children. Finch. Gloria Fae Finch, 11-12, appeared in her classroom. She hadn't been given a middle name by her parents and so adopted Frances, the feminine of Frank, her father's name.

Stuart attended Santa Monica High School, where she was active in theatre and played the lead role in her senior class performance, The Swan. She loved writing as well as acting, and she spent her remaining two summers in high school taking short story and poetry writing workshops: 13 and Santa Monica's newsroom.

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She had a turbulent past with her stepfather as an adolescent and wanted to attend college in order to leave home. Stuart enrolled at the University of California, majoring in philosophy and drama after high school. She appeared in plays, appeared in newspapers, worked on the Daily Californian, contributed to the campus literary journal, Occident, and posed as an artist's model in college. Gloria Stuart was born in Berkeley, California, and she began writing Gloria Stuart.

Stuart, a Berkeley undergraduate, wanted to join the Young Communist League. "I was told it was for the poor and the oppressed," she wrote. That appealed to me. However, membership was not open to anyone under the age of eighteen, so I couldn't join. 38 "She says that her relationship with muckraker Lincoln Steffens gave her "... more insight into laborers and blue-collar employees and made me want to work for liberal causes when I first arrived in Hollywood a few years ago."

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Stuart married Blair Gordon Newell, a young sculptor who apprenticed with Ralph Stackpole on the façade of the San Francisco Stock Exchange building in June 1930, at the end of her junior years. 18 The Newells moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, where they discovered Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Robinson Jeffers, and Lincoln Steffens and his wife Ella Winter. 45–46 In Carmel-by-the-Sea, Stuart appeared in productions at the Theatre of the Golden Bough and worked as a staff member on The Carmelite newspaper. 31 she created bouquets of dried flowers for a tea shop, where she also worked as a waitress. 36 Newell laid brick, chopped and stacked wood, taught sculpture and woodworking, and managed a miniature golf course. As night watchmen, they lived in a shack in the middle of a wood yard. Stuart, 31-37, will later recall this period of her life as "wonderfully bohemian."

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Stuart's appearance in Carmel at The Playbox, Gilmor Brown's private theater in Pasadena, attracted her attention. In Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, she was invited to appear as Masha. 26 people attended the opening night, including casting directors from Paramount and Universal. Both actors appeared backstage to schedule a screen test, but both studios claimed her. The studios then turned a coin and Universal won the toss. Stuart regarded herself a leading actress in theater, but she and Newell "weren't stony broke, live hand to mouth" so she decided to go with Universal, which cost a little more than Paraphrasedoutput.

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Stuart began her film career by playing an ingénue confronting her father's mistress in the Warner Bros. film Street of Women, a Pre-Code fall-women film for which she was loaned by Universal, according to Stuart. 41 Stuart's second film, in which also playing an ingénue, was in The All-American, a football-hero film.

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Gloria Stuart was one of fifteen new movie actresses chosen by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in early December 1932 — she was a WAMPAS baby star. Ginger Rogers, Mary Carlisle, Eleanor Holm were among the others. Stuart's career flourished as a result of her role as Margaret Laughton's Old Dark House (1932), playing a spooky wife who is left homeless among strangers at a spooky mansion (Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, and Raymond Massey). Stuart's performance was highly lauded, and The New York Times called his performance "clever and charming," and the film later became a cult classic. Stuart's experience filming The Old Dark House was also integral to the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933: a teen in 1933.

Stuart began canvassing for followers; she became one of the union's first founding members after filming was complete; she became one of the union's first founding members. 45 She helped Paul Muni, Franchot Tone, Ernst Lubitsch, and Oscar Hammerstein II of Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in June 1936. Dorothy Parker, a writer, was assisting the Spanish Civil War Orphanage in that year.

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Stuart was given her first co-starring role by director John Ford in her forthcoming film, Air Mail, opposite Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy. "Gloria Stuart, who does so well in The Old Dark House, a picture currently in the Rialto, makes the majority of the character of the woman rather than the exception in her early career," Mordaunt Hall wrote about her role in the film. Stuart made four films in 1932, four in 1933, six in 1934, before his first year in 1932. Stuart was having a baby in 1935, so only four films were released. In 1936, six movies were released. Gloria Stuart's notes for her mother at Air Mail were reduced to a few words. "Gloria Stuart appears as Lorraine" in Hell; Sweepings: "Gloria Stuart is a comely woman," Private Jones says.

In the first episode of the film, James Whale brought Stuart back for just one scene, but the critic Hall wrote, "There are those who might think that it is too bad to welcome as one of the protagonists, namely Gloria Stuart and have her killed off." Well, it is, but Mr. Whale did not want to harm his production by casting an incompetent actress or an unattractive one for this minor role."

(Mordaunt Hall discusses "the attractive role of the attractive Gloria Stuart..." in The Girl in 419 (Mordaunt Hall), and The Secret of the Blue Room ("Miss Stuart gives a charming appearance." In The Invisible Man (1933), James Whale played Stuart opposite Claude Rains. Rains was a well-known London import, and this was his first Hollywood film. (Mordaunt Hall's review of Stuart's career was a temperate, "Miss Stuart also does well by her role." Stuart met with him and his partner, David Lewis, after being involved in several of Whale's films.

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Gordon Newell, Stuart's husband, was dissatisfied with Hollywood life. He and Stuart were able to divorce amicably and divorced. 47-48 Stuart met Arthur Sheekman, one of the film's writers, on the set of her film Roman Scandals, a comedy starring Eddie Cantor). They were "indescatably attracted to each other" when they met. In August 1934, Sheekman and Stuart were married.

Universal loaned-out Stuart to Warner Brothers for Here Comes the Navy in 1934. In the first of nine films starring this male team, Stuart co-starred James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. "Supporting Mr. Cagney, and doing very well, as well as Gloria Stuart, are all doing excellent jobs," Frank S. Nugent wrote in the New York Times.

Stuart was portrayed in 1935's Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers as Dick Powell's love interest. It was a musical. Stuart did not dance or sing due to being pregnant, and the New York Times critic wrote, "Nor has Gloria Stuart anything of significant value to do in the position formerly held by Ruby Keeler."

Sylvia, Stuart's daughter, was born in 1936. 239 – 47 years old – named after Princess Sylvia, Stuart's character in Roman Scandals.

Stuart left Universal and joined Twentieth Century-Fox in the same year. Darryl F. Zanuck's first film role was in Professional Soldier, which was in favor of child actor Freddie Bartholomew and Victor McLaglen (who had won a Best Actor Award for his role in The Informer). "There is a minor romance between Gloria Stuart, the king's opulent governess, and Michael Whalen, the military's part-time assistant, but no one should worry about it." In 1936, John Ford invited Stuart to co-star with Warner Baxter in The Prisoner of Shark Island. Stuart, as the wife of Lincoln's assassination attempt, felt honored to work with Ford again: 89, although New York Times Frank S. Nugent wrote of Stuart's "...supportive performance." "Listing [Temple's] supporting actors hastily, but we'll ignore them entirely," Frank Nugent says. We'll even mention Miss Faye [and] Gloria Stuart as having been allowed a scene or two while Miss Temple was out freshening her costume."

"Call it mediocre and extend your sympathies to the cast," writes Barbara Nugent about the girl on the Front Page; "it is not a nuthin" or a Class B nuthin." Despite the films' mediocre reviews, Stuart had amassed a following of followers by this point in her career, one of whom had her portrait tattooed across her chest. In the fall of 1937, Stuart met with the fan and was photographed with him for a Life magazine cover.

Stuart appeared in The Lady Escapes, Life Begins in College, and Change of Heart, which did not have a prominent place in the New York Times movie pages. In 1938, Zanuck pleaded for Stuart assistance Shirley Temple in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Variety wrote an article about the film, "Shirley Temple reveals that she is a fantastic little artist in this one." The remainder of it is synthetic and disappointing; Rebecca of Radio City would be the more fitting name. Stuart was a helping player to a child actor in 1938, for the fourth time. Jane Withers was a child actor. In the New York Times article, Stuart's performance was not mentioned, but not her performance was highlighted.

Stuart's reviewer said she was "a pretty bill collector" in Time Out for Murder. In 1939, Stuart's last year in this period, the first year of Stuart's career, The Three Musketeers' billing came after Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers, and Binnie Barnes' work was not reviewed, and Stuart's billing was not considered. The Times critic said, "The only thing worth seeing in the photo is Tony Martin trying to be a prizefighter." This is positively killing." It Could Happen to You, Stuart Erwin, a quasi-comedy co-star, completed the eight years. Stuart is not mentioned once more.

"Gloria Stuart Quits Fox has terminated her Fox contract," Darryl Zanuck said in the movie pages the previous November.

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Stuart and then-husband Sheekman spent four months in Asia, Egypt, and Italy before crashing into France, just as France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. 92 — 116 They appealed to the American consul, asking to keep Sheekman as a war correspondent and Stuart as a hospital volunteer. The consul refused to help them and told them they would have to return to the United States. They boarded the SS President Adams, the last American passenger ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, 116–117, and landed in New York City in September.

Stuart wanted to return to stage acting in New York, aspire to star on Broadway. "I wanted to be a theater actress," she said, "but I thought it would be quicker to get to New York and the theater if I had a name rather than if I walked the streets as a little girl from California." They didn't want movie actresses when I went back to New York with a little less name. Stuart was nevertheless welcomed into summer stock theater on the east coast and appeared in various productions between 1940 and 1942, including: Man and Superman, The Animal Kingdom, Accent on Youth, Mr. and Mrs. North, Arms and the Man, and Sailor Beware! Emily Webb appeared in Our Town, which was staged at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in August 1940, opposite Thornton Wilder, under Wilder's direction.

162 Stuart took singing and dancing lessons, then the USO partnered her with actress Hillary Brooke to help with the war effort in the 1940s. 158–159 The two blonde actresses toured the country, visited hospitals, danced with servicemen in canteens, and sold war bonds. Stuart "wanted to volunteer for service with the USO overseas," but Arthur would not have known of it."

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Stuart begged her former employees to return to work. Here Comes Elmer (1943), Roy Rogers' wife, Dale Evans' first film in four years, was a comedy with music starring Roy Rogers' wife, Dale Evans. 160 In The Whistler (1944), an early directing credit for William Castle—Stuart co-starred Richard Dix. 160 Enemy of Women (1944), a war-themed drama, was Stuart's seventh in billing. 143 In She Wrote the Book a comedy starring Joan Davis and Jack Oakie, Stuart took one more role: she wore a redhead's wig.

Stuart went to New York with her partner Sheekman—Paramount, hoping that she could bring the new play Dream Girl to life. Stuart was taken by a friend to the studio of a découpage artist. Stuart was attracted to the art form in the hopes of replacing acting in her life. 168 Sheekman's encouragement, she opened Décor, Ltd., a Los Angeles furniture chain founded on a premise of decorating lamps, mirrors, chests, and other one of a kind objets d'art. Her work soared over the next four years, and her pieces were sold by Lord & Taylor in Dallas, Bullock's in Pasadena and Gump's in San Francisco. However, Stuart closed her shop because labour in "the fine fine cutting" was prohibitive, applying sixteen coats of lacquer" to every piece.

Stuart and husband Sheekman bought an old craftsman-style home, where she supervised the interior, planned all the furniture, and had it made. She planned the garden, which included a green house for orchids and a lath house for grafting fruit trees, and spent hours on her knees cultivating and planting. "I became a whirling dervish of creative renewal," Stuart says.

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Stuart first saw the Impressionist paintings at the Jeu de Paume museum in 1954, when he was visiting Paris. Stuart wanted to do it as well as découpage as she first saw it. 174 The Sheekmans were on their way to Italy. At the time, American artists living in other countries for at least eighteen months paid no taxes on their income earned during their stay. Sheekman, 175 was now very popular. In the eight years since returning from New York, he had appeared in fourteen films, mainly writing the screenplays. He wanted to try another play. 177 Stuart painted and Sheekman worked on his craft for the next eighteen months.

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Tommy Noonan appeared in Sheekman's comedy about a tragic comedy, The Joker, and it was scheduled into the Playhouse Theatre in New York on April 5, 1957. The play had been postponed for repairs in Washington, D.C., beginning on April 1 and ending a three-and-a-half weeks. Repairs were never made. Stuart was excited to display her artwork after seven years of being on her easel every day. Victor Hammer's debut one-woman display at his Hammer Galleries in New York in September 1961. 182 Nearly all of her forty canvases have been sold. 182 Stuart created her primitive-style paintings in numerous shows over the years, including at the Bianchini Gallery in New York, the Simon Patrich Galleries, and The Egg and the Eye in Los Angeles, as well as the Galerie du Jonelle in Palm Springs and the Staircase Gallery in Beverly Hills. Stuart's paintings are on loan from many private collections and permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), the Desert Museum of Palm Springs, and the Belhaven Museum (Jackson, Mississippi).

Stuart had been painting for nearly 30 years when she wrote, "The challenges to me of being a primitive had been wearing a little thin," she explained, and "I was fascinated by the intricate art form of serigraphy—silk screening." Stuart studied with serigrapher Evelyn Johnson who created vivid serigraphs that are now in private collections.

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Stuart introduced bonsai, another art form, in the late 1960s. 191 joined Nagata's bonsai club, Baiko-Encounter, as one of the first Anglo members of the California Bonsai Society, Frank Nagata, colleague of John Naka, a bonsai master in Los Angeles: 191 began attending classes from Frank Nagata. Eventually, Stuart's collection of miniature trees outnumbering one hundred miniature trees.

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Stuart decided to return to acting in 1975 after nearly thirty years out of the industry. Elizabeth Montgomery, an American Express agent, was immediately cast as a woman in a small role in a ABC television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Stuart was able to be cast in bit parts, mainly in television, including guest appearances on series such as The Waltons and Murder, She Wrote. 208 The 209 In Merlene of the Movies, a strange film for television, her friend, director Nancy Malone, gave her a leading role, and other acquaintances gave her roles in their films. My Favorite Year, 1982, was my Favorite Year. Though Stuart's performance lasted seconds and she had no lines, she was still dancing with Peter O'Toole. "It was a privilege to work with him," she wrote. "162": Stuart was in Jack Lemmon's drama Mass Appeal and Goldie Hawn's comedy Wildcats before being moved to television for bits and pieces. In the 1997 film Batman & Robin, a vintage publicity photograph of her was also used for the portrait of 'Peg', the sister of butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Arthur Sheekman, Stuart's husband, died in January 1978. Ward Ritchie, a close friend of Stuart's first husband, Gordon Newell, wrote to Stuart one of his books five years ago. Ritchie had been known as a pioneering printer, book designer, and printing historian. Ritchie published distinguished books on the arts, poetry, cuisine, and the American West, as well as his private Laguna Verde Imprenta press. Stuart invited him to dinner, and the two of them fell in love. Ritchie was seventy-eight and Stuart seventy-two. 220–220 If Stuart first followed Ritchie's studio and saw him pull a printed page from his 1839 English iron Albion hand press, she wanted to do it too. 226 After spending time at the Women's Workshop in Los Angeles, Stuart bought her own hand press, a Vandercook SP15: 228, and founded Imprenta Glorias, her own private press. Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984, but he was able to recover from it with lumpectomy followed by radiation.

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Stuart began making Artist's books in the late 1980s. 230 She penned the text (often poetry), set the type (carefully selecting the subject), and then printed the pages in water colors, silk screen, découpage, or both. In miniature, she made large artist's books and books. Several of her books took her years to finish. 231 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired one of them, created in 1996 with artist Don Bachardy, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stuart was introduced to San Francisco's top librarians and bibliophils through Ritchie. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Huntington Library, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Princeton University Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and private collections are among the 244 Imprenta Glorias books on sale. 233 Stuart and Ritchie were together for a decade before their death from pancreatic cancer in 1996. 239

"A female voice said she was calling from Lightstorm Entertainment about a movie shot on location, perhaps Poland," Cameron's casting director, Emily Schweber, arrived at Stuart's house on the next day, "notice that I was filming!" : 249 -- "Mr. Cameron's casting director, Malcolm Finn, directed by James Cameron "made us all laugh." : 249 ": 250 Finn brought over James Cameron and his video camera the next morning." "I was not the least bit nervous," Stuart wrote. "I knew I'd read Old Rose with the same compassion and tenderness that Cameron had intended." 251 Five days after Stuart's eighty-sixth birthday, Finn called back, "Gloria, how can you be Old Rose?"

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The bulk of Stuart's filming was completed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over three weeks, and received invites for additional documentaries. "The publicity for Titanic started on April 7, 1997," Stuart wrote. "278" is a film that was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on December 17, 1997, Stuart was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was one of the few Golden Age actresses to attend the service, as contemporaries Fay Wray, Bob Hope, and Milton Berle were among the others. 297 As of 2021, she is the oldest nominee in the category.

The Screen Actors Guild awarded Stuart its Founders Award on March 8, 1998, as well as the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role category, tying with Kim Basinger (L.A.). Confidential) Stuart was lauded by her peers for both awards.

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Stuart was included in People magazine's list of "The 50 most Beautiful People in the World in 1998" in May. Stuart was guest of honor at the Great Steamboat Race between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen in May, and then Grand Marshal of the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade.

Stuart decided to write her autobiography after signing a deal with Little, Brown, and Company, which I Just Kept Hoping. Stuart performed the poem Standing Stone, Paul McCartney's oratorio for orchestra and chorus, at The Hollywood Bowl on July 19, 1998, performing the poem.

Stuart was invited by producer and actress Kate Capshaw to star in her cast of The Love Letter (1999), which she shot in Rockport, Massachusetts, on May 17, 1999. Gloria Stuart, the mayor of Stuart's hometown Santa Monica, received a Commendation from the mayor in October 1999 for her many contributions around the world and her encouraging words to keep optimistic. This 16th day of October, 1999, the date was October 16th. Mayor Pam O'Connor "President" O'Connor. Stuart debuted her on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2000, right in front of the Pig 'n Whistle café, which had opened in 1927 when Stuart was still in high school. She has also appeared on several television shows, including the 2000 science fiction series The Invisible Man, Touched by an Angel, and General Hospital. Though Stuart's last two films were directed Wim Wenders, he was once more limited to minor roles. She worked at The Million Dollar Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in 1999. She appeared in Wenders' Land of Plenty, her last film.

Stuart donated her screen printing equipment to Mills College, where an exhibition of her work was on display. Despite her illness, Stuart appeared on June 19, 2010 to be lauded by the Screen Actors Guild for her years of service. She was given the Ralph Morgan Award by Titanic co-star Frances Fisher at a luncheon. Luncheon participants included James Cameron and Shirley MacLaine. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Stuart's career with a program highlighting film clips and interviews with Stuart and film scholar Leonard Maltin, portrait artist Don Bachardy, and Huntington Library Avery Director David S. Zeidberg. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater held 11,000 people.

Stuart appeared on camera for interviews on topics such as Groucho Marx, Shirley Whale, James Whale, horror films, and friends, Don Bachardy.

Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 94, many decades after she had stopped smoking. She had been enjoying excellent health for her senior years until that point, except for receiving cortisone shots for knee pain. She underwent radiotherapy, but the cancer returned in time and she underwent a shorter course of radiation. The malignancy continued to spread, but slowly due to her age. She died six years after her first illness and recently celebrated her centennial.

On July 4, 2010, Stuart celebrated her 100th birthday, as well as family and friends at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills, hosted by James Cameron and Suzy Amis. Several of her paintings and serigraphs, artist's books, excerpts of her découpage and trees from her bonsai collection were on view in the gallery.

1930–1934: Theatre and early films

Stuart's appearance in the theatre in Carmel drew her to Gilmor Brown's private theater, The Playbox, in Pasadena. She was invited to appear in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull as Masha. 26 people attended Paramount and Universal's opening night. Both artists appeared backstage to schedule a screen test, but they didn't know her. The studios then turned a coin and Universal won the toss. Stuart thought she was a good actress in theater, but she and Newell "were stony broke, live hand to mouth" so she decided to stick with Universal, which cost a little more than Paraphrasedoutput.

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In the Warner Bros. film Street of Women, a Pre-Code fell-women film for which she was loaned by Universal, Stuart began her film career by confronting her father's mistress. The All-American, 41 Stuart's second film in which he was also playing an ingénue, was published.

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Gloria Stuart, a WAMPAS Baby Star, was one of fifteen new movie actresses "Most Likely to Succeed" in early December 1932. Ginger Rogers, Mary Carlisle, and Eleanor Holm were among the others. Stuart's career soared when English director James Whale cast The Old Dark House (1932), portraying a glamorous wife who remains trapped among strangers at a spooky mansion, alongside actress Margaret Thesiger, Robert Bond, and Raymond Massey. Stuart's performance was lauded by critics, and the New York Times called his role "clever and charming," with the film later becoming a cult classic. Stuart's filming experience The Old Dark House in 1933 was also instrumental in the formation of the Screen Actors Guild:

Stuart began canvassing for supporters after filming was completed; she became one of the union's first founding members. 45 She assisted Paul Muni, Franchot Tone, Ernst Lubitsch, and Oscar Hammerstein II of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in June 1936. 46 Dorothy Parker, a writer from the University of On the same year as she and her brother Dorothy Parker founded the League to Help the Spanish Civil War Orphans.

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Stuart was given her first co-starring role by director John Ford in her forthcoming film, Air Mail, opposite Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy. "Gloria Stuart, who does so well in The Old Dark House, a picture now in Rialto, makes the majority of the woman a woman quotient." Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times wrote about her appearance in the film: "Gloria Stuart, who does so well in The Old Dark House, makes the majority of the character of the woman a person resembles." In 1932, her first year, Stuart had four films out, nine in 1933, and six in 1934. Because Stuart was having a baby in 1935, only four movies were released. In 1936, six films were followed. Gloria Stuart's notes at Mordaunt Hall came down to a few words after being traced back to a few words. "Gloria Stuart appears as Lorraine," says the narrator of hell; "Gloria Stuart plays Lorraine"; "Gloria Stuart plays Lorraine"; Private Jones: "Gloria Stuart is charming."

In the first episode of The Kiss Before the Mirror, James Whale brought Stuart back for just one scene, but the critic Hall noted, "There are those who may think that it is too bad to introduce as one of the protagonists, namely Gloria Stuart, and have her killed off as one of the protagonists." Well, it is, but Mr. Whale did not want to harm his production by casting an incompetent actress or an ugly one for this minor role."

"Mordaunt Hall discusses "... the charming portrayal of the persuasive Gloria Stuart" and The Secret of the Blue Room ("Miss Stuart gives a pleasant appearance." In The Invisible Man (1933), James Whale portrayed Stuart opposite Claude Rains. Rains was a well-known London celebrity, and this was his first Hollywood film. (Mordaunt Hall's review of Stuart's career was a temperate, "Miss Stuart also does well in her role." Stuart and his partner, David Lewis, became close friends after appearing in numerous of Whale's films.

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Gordon Newell, Stuart Newell's husband, was dissatisfied with Hollywood life. He and Stuart were able to divorce amicably and divorced. 47-48 (on the set of her film Roman Scandals, a comedy starring Eddie Cantor), Stuart met Arthur Sheekman, one of the film's writers, in 1933. 61 They were "intently attracted to each other" and "appreciate to each other." In August 1934, 61 Stuart and Sheekman married.

Universal Loaned-out Stuart to Warner Brothers for Here Comes the Navy in 1934. In the first of nine films starring this male team, Stuart co-starred James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. "Supporting Mr. Cagney--and-doing excellent jobs," Frank S. Nugent said in the New York Times, "Supporting Mr. Cagney--and-Doing Very Good Jobs, as well as Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart."

Stuart was cast in 1935's Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers. It was a musical. Stuart did not dance or sing due to being pregnant, and the New York Times critic wrote: "No one has Gloria Stuart anything of utmost importance to fill the position occupied by Ruby Keeler."

Sylvia, Stuart's niece who was named after Princess Sylvia of Stuart's character in Roman Scandals, was born in June 1935. 239.

Stuart left Universal and joined Twentieth Century-Fox in the same year. Darryl F. Zanuck's first film role was in Professional Soldier, supporting child actor Freddie Bartholomew and Victor McLaglen (who had received a Best Actor award for his role in The Informer). "There's a little romance between Gloria Stuart, the king's opulent governess, and Michael Whalen, the professional soldier's part-time assistant, but no one should take it seriously," Frank Nugent said. In 1936, John Ford invited Stuart to co-star with Warner Baxter in The Prisoner of Shark Island. Stuart, playing the wife of Lincoln's assassination, felt privileged to work with Ford once more: "Frankly Rich Girl" 89, though New York Times Frank S. Nugent wrote of Stuart's "helpful work." "Listing [Temple's] supporting characters hastily, but we'll never forget them entirely," Frank Nugent says.

"Call it mediocre and extend your sympathies to the cast," Zanuck says on the front page, "not a nuthin" and a Class B nuthin." Despite the film's mediocre reviews, Stuart had amassed a following of followers by this point in her career, one of whom had her portrait tattooed across her chest. In the fall of 1937, Stuart met with the fan and was photographed with him for a Life magazine cover.

Stuart appeared in The Lady Escapes, Life Begins in College, and Change of Heart, both of which did not have a prominent place in the New York Times' film pages. In 1938, Zanuck pressed Stuart support for Shirley Temple in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Variety wrote a review of the film, "Shirley Temple reveals that she is a natural little artist in this one." The remainder of it is synthetic and sad... Rebecca of Radio City is the more appropriate name. Stuart was a helping actor to a child actor in 1938, for the fourth time. In the New York Times' review, Stuart, not her performance, is listed.

Stuart's reviewer said she was "a pretty bill collector" in Time Out for Murder. Stuart's billing came after Don Ameche's involvement, The Ritz Brothers, and Binnie Barnes' work was not reviewed in 1939, the last year in Stuart's career. "The only thing worth seeing in the picture is Tony Martin's attempt to play a prizefighter," the Times critic said. This is positively killing." It Could Happen to You, Stuart Erwin of "a quasi-comedy" co-starring Stuart Erwin, completed the eight years. Stuart is also unidentified.

"Gloria Stuart Quits Fox Fox has terminated her employment with Fox," Darryl Zanuck said in the movie pages the previous November.

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Stuart and then-husband Sheekman spent four months in Asia, Egypt, and Italy before he landed in France, just as France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. 92: They appealed to the American consulate, asking to maintain Sheekman as a war correspondent, while Stuart as a hospital volunteer. The consul refused to assist them and told them that they should return to the United States. They landed in New York City on September 11, 116–117, the last American passenger ship to cross the Atlantic, 116–117.

Stuart, a New York native, wanted to return to stage acting in New York, with the intention of appearing on Broadway. "I wanted to be a theater actress," she said, "but I thought it would be quicker to get to New York and the theater if I had a name rather than if I walked the streets from California as a young girl." They didn't want movie actresses when I went back to New York with a vague name. Stuart was, on the contrary, welcomed into summer stock theater on the east coast and appeared in a number of productions between 1940 and 1942, including: Man and Hero, Accent on Youth, Mr. and Mrs. North, Arms and the Man, and Sailor Beware! Emily Webb, opposite Thornton Wilder in his play Our Town, which was produced at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, appeared in August 1940.

162 Stuart took singing and dancing lessons, then the USO teamed her with actress Hillary Brooke to aid in the war effort in the 1940s. 158–159 The two blonde actresses toured the country, visited hospitals, danced with servicemen in canteens, and sold war bonds. Stuart "wanted so much to serve overseas with the USO," but Arthur would not know about it.

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Stuart begged her ex agents to help her with her. Here Comes Elmer (1943), Roy Rogers' wife, Dale Evans, was the first film to feature her in four years. 160 In The Whistler (1944)—an early directing credit for William Castle's horror artist, William Castle—Stuart co-starred with Richard Dix. 160 In her following film, Enemy of Women (1944), a war-themed drama, Stuart was seventh in billing. Stuart in She Wrote the Book, a comedy starring Joan Davis and Jack Oakie, 143 years later.

Stuart and her partner Sheekman-Paramount came to New York in 1945 to see the latest film Dream Girl, hoping she would adapt it for to screen. Stuart was taken by a friend to the studio of a découpage artist. Stuart thought it might be able to replace acting in her life if she were drawn to the art form. 168 Created a shop on Los Angeles' decorators' row, named it Décor, Ltd.: 169 Stuart created découpaged lamps, mirrors, chests, and other one of a kind objets d'art. Over the next four years, her art grew in importance, and her pieces were sold by Lord & Taylor in Dallas, Bullock's in Pasadena and Gump's in San Francisco. However, Stuart closed her shop because the labour involved in "the fine fine cutting" was prohibitive, applying sixteen coats of lacquer" to every piece.

Stuart and husband Sheekman acquired an old craftsman-style house, where she supervised the renovation, supervised the construction, arranged all the furniture, and had it custom made. She planned the garden, which included a green house for orchids and a lath house for grafting fruit trees, spending hours on her knees cultivating and planting. "I became a whirling dervish of creative renewal," Stuart says.

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Stuart first visited the Impressionist paintings at the Jeu de Paume museum in 1954, while in Paris. Stuart wanted to do it too when she first saw découpage. 174 The Sheekmans were on their way to Italy. At the time, American artists who had been in the United States for at least eighteen months paid no taxes on the income earned during their residency. Sheekman, 175 was a hit. He had been on fourteen films in the eight years since returning from New York, mainly writing the screenplays. He wanted to try another thing. 177 Stuart painted and Sheekman worked on his craft for the next eighteen months.

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Tommy Noonan was cast in Tommy Noonan's comedic comedy The Joker, a sad tale, and it premiered in New York on April 5, 1957. The play was announced on April 1 that it was ending a three-and-a-half weeks in Washington, DC, and was "taken off for repairs." There were never attempts at repairs. Stuart was keen to display her artwork after seven years of being at her easel every day. Victor Hammer gave Stuart his first one-woman performance at his Hammer Galleries in New York in September 1961. 182 Nearly all of her forty canvases were sold. 182 Stuart performed her primitive-style paintings in numerous shows over the years, including at the Bianchini Gallery in New York, the Simon Patrich Galleries and The Eye in Los Angeles, the Galerie du Jonelle in Palm Springs, and the Staircase Gallery in Beverly Hills. Stuart's paintings are in numerous private collections and permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), the Desert Museum of Palm Springs, and the Belhaven Museum (Jackson, Mississippi).

Stuart had been painting for almost thirty years before she wrote, "The risks to me of painting as a primitive had been wearing a little thin," she explained, and "I had been intrigued by the complex art of serigraphy—silk screening." Stuart worked with serigrapher Evelyn Johnson, who later created vivid serigraphs that are also in private collections.

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Stuart adopted bonsai, another art form, in the late 1960s. 191 began training with Frank Nagata, a bonsai master in Los Angeles, and became one of the first Anglo members of the California Bonsai Society. Over one hundred miniature trees were planted by Stuart's collection in the end.

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Stuart decided to return to acting in 1975 after nearly thirty years out of the industry. She became an agent and was immediately cast in a small role as a woman client in a ABC television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Stuart was able to be cast in bit parts, mainly in television, including guest appearances on series such as The Waltons and Murder, She Wrote. 209 Her friend, director Nancy Malone, gave her a leading role in Merlene of the Movies, a quirky film for television, and several of her acquaintances also gave her appearances in their films. My Favorite Year was 1982. Although Stuart's performance lasted a few minutes and she had no lines, she was still performing with Peter O'Toole. "It was a privilege to work with him," she wrote. ": 162 Stuart appeared in Jack Lemmon's drama Mass Appeal and Goldie Hawn's comedy Wildcats, as well as other bits and pieces in television. In the 1997 film Batman & Robin, a vintage publicity photograph of her was also used for the portrait of 'Peg', the sister of butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Arthur Sheekman, Stuart's husband, died in January 1978. Ward Ritchie, a close friend of Stuart's first husband, Gordon Newell, sent Stuart one of his books five years ago. Ritchie had worked his way to be a well-known printer, book designer, and printing historian. Ritchie published acclaimed books on the arts, poetry, cookery, and the American West, as a result of his commercial Ward Ritchie Press and private Laguna Verde Imprenta Press. Stuart brought him to dinner and the two of them fell in love. Ritchie was seventy-eight and Stuart seventy-two. 219–220 When Stuart first followed Ritchie into his studio and saw him pull a printed page from his 1839 English iron Albion hand press, she decided to do it too. 226 Stuart took her own hand press, a Vandercook SP15: 228 and founded Imprenta Glorias after attending typesetting at the Women's Workshop in Los Angeles. Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984, but the disease was treated with a lumpectomy followed by radiation.

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Stuart began making Artist's books in the late 1980s. 230 She penned multiple, wrote the text (often poetry), set the style (carefully selecting the subject), and then printed the pages, then decorated the pages with water colors, silk screen, découpage, or both of the three factors. In miniature, she made major artist's books and novels. Several of her novels took her years to finish. 231 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired one of them, created in 1996 by artist Don Bachardy.

Stuart was introduced to San Francisco to Paris by Ritchie. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Huntington Library, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Occidental College Library, the Princeton University Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as private collections, have 244 Imprenta Glorias books on sale in the Huntington Library, the Huntington Library, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art 233 Stuart and Ritchie were together for thirteen years until his death from pancreatic cancer in 1996. 239

"A female voice said she was calling from Lightstorm Entertainment about a film shot on location, perhaps Poland, referring to James Cameron's Titanic "directed by James Cameron" - 249 "Michael and I talked to Stuart next day" during Emma's filming. ": 250 Finn brought over James Cameron and his video camera next morning." "I was not the least bit worried," Stuart wrote. "I knew I'd read Old Rose with the compassion and tenderness that Cameron had intended": "Gloria, how would you like to be Old Rose." 251 In five days after Stuart's eighty-sixth birthday, Finn called him again and asked, "Gloria, how would you like to be Old Rose."

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The bulk of Stuart's filming was completed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over three weeks, and received requests for additional documentaries. "The publicity blitz for Titanic started on April 7, 1997... from that point on, the deluge of publicity never stopped." 2880's Memory: Stuart was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film on December 17, 1997." She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Fay Wray, Bob Hope, and Milton Berle, one of the few Golden Age celebrities to attend, were among the many people attending the service. 297 She is the oldest candidate in the category as of 2021.

The Screen Actors Guild awarded Stuart its Founders Award on March 8, 1998, and the Supporting Role award was also given to an Actress in a Supporting Role, tying with Kim Basinger (L.A.). Confidential information. Stuart was lauded by her peers for both awards.

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Stuart was included on People magazine's list of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1998" in May. Stuart was also guest of honor at the Great Steamboat Race between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen in May, and later became Grand Marshal of the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade.

Stuart Brown and Company's first author, I Just Kept Hoping, has signed a deal with Little, Brown, and Company to write her autobiography. Stuart performed the poem, Standing Stone, Paul McCartney's oratorio for orchestra and chorus on July 19, 1998, marking her debut at The Hollywood Bowl.

Stuart was invited by producer and actress Kate Capshaw to appear in her cast of The Love Letter (1999), which she shot in Rockport, Massachusetts, by Elizabeth Capshaw. Gloria Stuart "... for numerous contributions world-wide and her inspirational message to keep hoping" in October 1999. This 16th day of October, 1999, the date is October 16th. Mayor Pam O'Connor" Stuart introduced herself on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2000, in front of the Pig 'n Whistle café, which had opened in 1927, when Stuart was still in high school. She has appeared on several television shows, including the 2000 science fiction film The Invisible Man; Touched by an Angel, and General Hospital. Stuart's last two films, although they were limited to minor roles, were for director Wim Wenders. She worked on The Million Dollar Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in 1999. In 2004, she appeared in Wenders' Land of Plenty, her final film.

Stuart donated her screen printing equipment to Mills College in 2006, where an exhibit of her work was on display. Despite her illness, Stuart appeared in person on June 19, 2010, when she was recognized by the Screen Actors Guild for her years of service. Frances Fisher, a Titanic co-star, received the Ralph Morgan Award at a luncheon. The luncheon featured James Cameron and Shirley MacLaine. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Stuart and Film historian Leonard Maltin, portrait artist Don Bachardy, and Avery Director David S. Zeidberg honored Stuart's career in a series on July 22, 2010. The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre held one thousand people.

From the time Stuart was announced in the Titanic cast, she appeared on television for interviews on topics such as Groucho Marx, Shirley Whale, James Whale, horror films, and colleagues Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.

Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 94, many decades after she had stopped smoking. Except from taking cortisone shots for knee pain, she had been enjoying remarkably good health for her senior age up until that time. She underwent radiation therapy, but the cancer returned in time and she underwent a shorter course of radiation. The malignancy continued to spread, but it slowed due to her age. She died six years after her first illness and centennial.

On July 4, 2010, Stuart celebrated her 100th birthday, as well as family and friends at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills, hosted by James Cameron and Suzy Amis. Many of Stuart's paintings and serigraphs, author's books, samples of her découpage, and trees from her bonsai collection were on view in the gallery.

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Stuart and her partner, Sheekman—Paramount, went to New York with her husband Sheekman—Paramount, requesting that she see the new film Dream Girl, which she wanted to bring to life. Stuart was taken by a friend to the studio of a découpage artist. Stuart thought it would replace acting in her life if she were drawn to the art form. 168 Sheekman founded Décor, Ltd., a 169 firm that made découpaged lamps, mirrors, chests, and other one of a kind objets d'art with Sheekman's encouragement. Her work in San Francisco, Neiman Marcus, gaining traction over the next four years, and her pieces were sold by Lord & Taylor in New York, Bullock's in Pasadena and Gump's. However, Stuart closed her shop due to the fact that labor in "the fine fine cutting" was prohibitive, applying sixteen coats of lacquer" to every piece.

Stuart and husband Sheekman built an old craftsman-style house, where she oversaw the renovation, supervised the building, supervised the construction, designed all of the furniture, and had it custom made. She planned the gardens, including a green house for orchids and a lath house for grafting fruit trees, and spent hours in the garden cultivating and planting. "I became a whirling dervish of creative renewal," Stuart says.

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Stuart first saw the Impressionist paintings at the Jeu de Paume museum in 1954, while touring Paris. Stuart wanted to do it too when she first saw découpage. 174 The Sheekmans were on their way to Italy. At the time, American artists who had been in the country for at least eighteen months received no income tax on their income earned during their residency. Sheekman, 175: This is now a hit. In the eight years since returning from New York, he had appeared in fourteen films, mainly writing the screenplays. He wanted to try another sport. 177 Stuart painted and Sheekman worked on his craft for the next eighteen months.

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Tommy Noonan was cast as the protagonist in Sheekman's comedy about a sad comedy, The Joker, and it was scheduled to open in New York on April 5, 1957. The play was announced on April 1 that it was ending a three-and-a-half weeks in Washington, DC, and that it had been "taken off for repairs." No repairs were ever made. Stuart was eager to display her artwork after seven years of being at her easel every day. Victor Hammer's debut one-woman exhibition at his Hammer Galleries in New York in September 1961. 182 Nearly all of her forty canvases were sold. 182 Stuart in the ensuing years exhibited her primitive-style paintings in many exhibitions, including at the Bianchini Gallery in New York, the Simon Patrich Galleries, and The Egg and the Eye in Los Angeles, as well as the Galerie du Jonelle in Palm Springs. Stuart's works are included in numerous private collections and permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), the Desert Museum of Palm Springs, and the Belhaven Museum (Jackson, Mississippi).

Stuart had been painting for nearly three decades, "I'd been wearing a little thin when painting as a primitive had been on me," she wrote, and I was taken aback by the complicated art form of serigraphy—silk screening." Stuart worked with serigrapher Evelyn Johnson, who later created vivid serigraphs that are also in private collections.

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Stuart introduced bonsai, an ancient art form, in the late 1960s. 191 joined Nagata's bonsai club, Baiko-Encounter, becoming one of the first Anglo members of the California Bonsai Society, learning from Frank Nagata, a colleague of John Naka. Over a hundred miniature trees were planted in Stuart's collection by the time.

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Stuart decided to return to acting in 1975, after nearly 30 years out of the industry. She became an agent and was immediately cast in a small role as a woman customer in a ABC television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Stuart was able to be cast in bit roles, mainly in television, including guest appearances on series such as The Waltons and Murder, She Wrote. 209 Her sister, director Nancy Malone, gave her a leading role in Merlene of the Movies, a quirky film for television, and several of her colleagues performed her roles in their shows. My Favorite Year was 1982. Though Stuart's appearance lasted for a few minutes and she had no lines, she was still dancing with Peter O'Toole. "It was a great honor to work with him," she wrote. "162: Stuart was in Jack Lemmon's drama Mass Appeal and Goldie Hawn's Wildcats at the time, as well as other bits and pieces in television. In the 1997 film Batman & Robin, a vintage publicity photograph of her was also used for the portrait of 'Peg,' the sister of butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Arthur Sheekman, Stuart's husband, died in January 1978. Ward Ritchie, a close friend of Stuart's first husband, Gordon Newell, sent Stuart one of his books five years ago. Ritchie had established himself as a celebrated printer, book designer, and printing historian. Ritchie published distinguished books on the arts, poetry, cookery, and the American West, as well as private Laguna Verde Imprenta press. Stuart invited him to dinner and the pair immediately fell in love. Ritchie was seventy-eight and Stuart seventy-two. 220–220 When Stuart first followed Ritchie into his studio and saw him pull a newspaper from his 1839 English iron Albion hand press, she wanted to do it too. 226 After attending typesetting at the Women's Workshop in Los Angeles, Stuart bought her own hand press, a Vandercook SP15: 228 and founded Imprenta Glorias, her own personal press. Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984, but the disease was treated with lumpectomy and radiation.

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Stuart began making Artist's books in the late 1980s. 230 She wrote the text (often poetry), set the style (carefully selecting the subject), and then printed the pages, embosseding the pages with water colors, silk screen, découpage, or any of the three styles. In miniature, she created numerous artist's books and books. Several of her books took her years to finish. 231 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired one of them, created in 1996 by artist Don Bachardy, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stuart was introduced to San Francisco's most influential librarians and bibliophils by Ritchie. Imprenta Glorias books can be found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Huntington Library, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library & Museum, the New York Public Library, the Princeton University Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as private collections. 233 Stuart and Ritchie lived together for thirteen years until his death from pancreatic cancer in 1996. 239

"A female voice from Lightstorm Entertainment said she was calling for a film film to be shot on location, perhaps Poland," Cameron's casting director, Emily Schweber, accompanied us as Emily filmed us. Finn brought over James Cameron and his video camera the next morning.'s apologies to him. "I was not the least bit anxious," Stuart wrote. "I knew I'd read Old Rose with the compassion and tenderness that Cameron had envisioned." 551 Five days after Stuart's eighty-sixth birthday, Finn phoned back, asking, "Gloria, how will you be Old Rose?

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In early summer of 1996, the bulk of Stuart's filming was completed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 268 Stuart also made recordings for several documentaries, made recordings for a few documentaries, and received calls for additional films. "The publicity war for Titanic started on April 7, 1997," Stuart said. 278 "Because of the fact": Stuart was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film on December 17, 1997." She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was one of the few Golden Age actresses to attend the service, with contemporaries Fay Wray, Bob Hope, and Milton Berle accompanying. 297 As of 2021, she is the oldest nominee in the category.

The Screen Actors Guild awarded Stuart its Founders Award on March 8, 1998, and it also received the award for Best Achievement by an Actress in a Supporting Role, tying Kim Basinger (L.A.). Confidential Information: Stuart received a standing ovation from her peers for both awards.

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Stuart was included on People magazine's list of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. Stuart was also guest of honor at the Great Steamboat Race between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen in May, and then Grand Marshal of the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade.

I Just Kept Hoping, Stuart, Brown, and Company have agreed to write her autobiography. Stuart performed the poem, Standing Stone, Paul McCartney's oratorio for orchestra and chorus, on her debut at The Hollywood Bowl on July 19, 1998.

Stuart was invited by producer and actress Kate Capshaw to star in The Love Letter (1999), which was shot in Rockport, Massachusetts, by Kate Capshaw. Gloria Stuart, a native of Stuart's Santa Monica, was given a Commendation by the mayor in October 1999 for her many contributions around the world and her encouraging message to keep believing. This is the 16th day of October, 1999. Mayor Pam O'Connor. Stuart on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2000, she was introduced on the Porch 'n Whistle café, which opened in 1927 when Stuart was still in high school. She has appeared on several television shows, including the 2000 science fiction film The Invisible Man; Touched by an Angel and General Hospital. Although Stuart's last two films were directed by Wim Wenders, he was limited to minor roles. In 1999, she worked on The Million Dollar Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. She appeared in Wenders' Land of Plenty, her last film.

Barbara Isherwood and Don Bachardy appeared before the camera for interviews on topics including Groucho Marx, Shirley Whale, James Whale, horror films, and even friends.

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