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She was the only cast member of Titanic (1997) who was alive at the time of the actual disaster. Stuart lived to be 100 years old, the same age as her character in the film.

At age 87, she was the oldest person ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. Christopher Plummer later surpassed her when he was nominated at age 88 for Alles Geld der Welt (2017). To date, Judd Hirsch was also the same age as Stuart (87) when he got nominated for Die Fabelmans (2022).

At age 86, she was aged by makeup to play Rose DeWitt Bukater at age 101 in Titanic (1997). However, Stuart did not find this a pleasant experience.

Resided directly opposite the house in Brentwood, California where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.

In Die Goldgräber von 1935 (1935), Stuart played a young woman whose mother pushes her to marry an unlikable rich man, but the young woman falls in love with a poor man. In Titanic (1997), Stuart's character did the very same thing 84 years earlier.

Shortened her last name from "Stewart" to "Stuart" because she thought its six letters balanced perfectly on a theater's marquee with the six letters in "Gloria".

At the height of her early career as a contract player for 20th Century Fox, a young fan of Stuart's--Ray Pearl, from Chicago--had her portrait tattooed across his chest. Stuart met with Pearl in person, an event which was photographed and profiled in Life magazine in fall 1937.

She helped form the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (1936).

While Stuart was appearing in the Pasadena Playhouse, not only was a Paramount casting director there, but also an agent from Universal who was there to see her leading man was also. She received contract offers from both studios but was advised to sign from Universal because it was not a major studio at the time and that would offer her more opportunities.

She was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Her daughter, Sylvia Vaughn (Sheekman) Thompson Park (born June 19, 1935), is a gourmet food writer and has authored several cookbooks.

Although this was rumored that she was buried at several well-known Hollywood cemeteries, Gloria Stuart was cremated and her ashes were distributed, according to her lifelong wishes, in Santa Monica Bay, as family, friends and Titanic (1997) crew and cast members stood on the Santa Monica Pier.

Following her husband's death, she engaged in a 13-year friendship with printer Ward Ritchie, born in 1904. They first met in 1930 when he was best friends with first husband, sculptor Blair Gordon Newell. The two reacquainted in March 1983 and he taught her fine printing. They remained close until his death in 1996.

Titanic (1997) was her third film that featured a doomed ship. One of her early films, Here Comes the Navy (1934), was filmed aboard the USS Arizona. The other was Girl Overboard (1937).

Turned down Shirley auf Welle 303 (1938) because she felt that the material was not to her dramatic acting abilities; however, Darryl F. Zanuck forced her to do the picture, and explained that she would be seen by millions, due to Shirley Temple's popularity. Stuart agreed in a 1998 interview that Zanuck was correct.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 27, 2000.

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1998).

Had appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Der Unsichtbare (1933) and Titanic (1997).

She graduated from Santa Monica High School (1927) and attended the University of California, Berkeley but dropped out.

Favorite actress of director James Whale, whom she worked with in three films: Das Haus des Grauens (1932), The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) and Der Unsichtbare (1933).

Her younger brother, Frank Finch, an esteemed sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, was born in 1911.

She appeared as an extra in the cult series Female of the Species (1983). Even though she received full credits in a single frame "Gloria Stuart as Bag Lady", no dialogue was written for her, it wasn't a bit part, and this wasn't a cameo either. She is onscreen for exactly three seconds, and there is no close-up to recognize her by: as the protagonist runs after an escaped woman, she is but a figure to the left - barely seen digging in an alley dumpster - who turns towards the camera to look at the man running. She was evidently hired for the prestigiousness of her name's former glory. It wouldn't be until 14 years later, that her career would go through a brief - yet very noteworthy - revival, with Titanic (1997).

Her younger brother, Thomas Stewart, died in infancy in 1912 from spinal meningitis.

Stepdaughter of Fred J. Finch, a Kentucky native who owned a local funeral parlor and held oil leases in Texas.

Had appeared in at least two films that feature a horrific cruise ship disaster, released almost exactly sixty years apart: Girl Overboard (1937) and Titanic (1997).

Had appeared with John Carradine in three films: Der Unsichtbare (1933), Der Gefangene der Haifischinsel (1936) and The Three Musketeers (1939).

Not to be confused with James Stewart's wife Gloria Stewart.

WAMPAS Baby Star (1932).

Her four grandchildren are David Oxley Thompson (born January 15, 1957 in Berkeley, California); Benjamin Stuart Thompson (born September 21, 1959 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England); Dinah Vaughn Thompson (born December 6, 1960 in Los Angeles, California); and Amanda Thompson (born July 30, 1962 in Berkeley, California).

Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).

Mother-in-law of television writer Gene Thompson.

Her eleven great-grandchildren are Jacob Thompson; Samuel Thompson; Deborah Thompson; Tziporah Thompson; Sarah-Leah Thompson; Dylan Sapia; Weston Sapia; Stuart Sapia; Jasen Sapia; Maggie Thompson and Frannie Whelan.