'Titanic' Actress Gloria Stuart Dies Almost Two Months After Her 100th Birthday*
The oldest woman ever nominated for an Academy Award, Gloria Stuart, died last night after a five-year battle with lung cancer. She earned her nomination back in 1997 at the age of 87 for her role as “Old Rose” in Titanic. She died a centenarian, passing away two days a couple of months after her 100th birthday.
More from the LA Times’ obit:
As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.”
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