Actress Gloria Stuart, the elder Rose in 'Titanic,' dies at 100

[SoCalNative]

Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady whose first significant role in nearly 60 years — as the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film about the ill-fated ocean liner — earned her an Academy Award nomination, has died. She was 100.

Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, her family said.

Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/09/actress-gloria-stuart-rose-in-titanic-dies-at-100.html

[Ian David]

1. She was younger than McCain. n/t

[joeybee12]

7. And nicer, and added something to our culture, while he is a pustulant sore on the butt

of humanity.


RIP Ms. Stuart.

[Ian David]

9. Those things too. RIP. n/t

[joeybee12]

10. RIP...sad that she didn't get an oscar for that role...

would have been a nice recognition of her career, and she was certainly more deserving than Kim basinger.

[hlthe2b]

2. RIP, Ms. Stuart... a life well lived it seems.

[louis-t]

3. She was 86 when the movie was filmed.

Watched it yesterday for the first time in a long time.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Ahh sad

:-( RIP Rose.

[RockaFowler]

5. How sad

:(

Loved you Ms Stuart and what you did for all actors after you. The Screen Actors Guild is one of the strongest unions who really help those members down on their luck.

[louis-t]

6. Old Rose, looking at charcoal drawing:

"Wasn't I a dish?" Lou, looking at 1930's photo of Gloria Stuart: "Yes, you were."

[Brickbat]

8. Solidarity, Gloria!

:patriot:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. "Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago"

And she lived five years. That was one tough old lady. RIP.