Gloria Stuart Net Worth

Gloria Stuart's Quotes

• When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
• Onward and Upward - Avanti!
• [on her comeback as the elderly Rose in Titanic (1997)] I think that's the important thing. If you're full of love, admiration, appreciation of the beautiful things there are in this life, you have it made, really. And I have it made.
• [on receiving the Ralph Morgan Award for her years of service] I'm very, very grateful. I've had a wonderful life of giving and sharing.
• [on celebrating her 100th birthday on July 4, 2010] I would say I don't notice any difference between 100 and, say, 90. You're still frail, feeble and full of you-know-what.

Interesting Facts about Gloria Stuart

1. 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 All the Money in the World (2017).
2. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1998).
3. 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.
4. 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 Meisje over boord (1937).
5. 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.
6. 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".
7. Her daughter, Sylvia Vaughn (Sheekman) Thompson Park (born June 19, 1935), is a gourmet food writer and has authored several cookbooks.
8. 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.
9. Turned down Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (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.
10. 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.
11. Stepdaughter of Fred J. Finch, a Kentucky native who owned a local funeral parlor and held oil leases in Texas.
12. She graduated from Santa Monica High School (1927) and attended the University of California, Berkeley but dropped out.
13. Her younger brother, Thomas Stewart, died in infancy in 1912 from spinal meningitis.
14. Her younger brother, Frank Finch, an esteemed sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, was born in 1911.
15. 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).
16. 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.
17. Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
18. In Gold Diggers of 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.
19. Resided directly opposite the house in Brentwood, California where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.
20. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 27, 2000.