--- name: "Gloria Stuart" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gloria-stuart" fi1m_id: "gloria-stuart" imdb_id: "nm0001784" tmdb_id: 8535 wikidata_id: "Q189407" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 July 1910" died: "26 September 2010" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 77 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-24T06:50:14.820018+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gloria Stuart ## Identity Gloria Stuart - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gloria-stuart - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gloria-stuart - **IMDb ID:** nm0001784 - **TMDB ID:** 8535 - **Wikidata ID:** Q189407 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Stuart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189407, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001784/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8535 Actor. Born 4 July 1910 in Santa Monica, California, USA. Died 26 September 2010. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 July 1910, Santa Monica, California, USA - **Died:** 26 September 2010 - **Active:** 1934–1997 - **Also known as:** Gloria Frances Stewart, Gloria Stewart, Gloria Stuart Sheekman, Gloria Fae Finch, Gloria Frances Stuart - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 70 (1), 1990s 84 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Stuart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189407, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001784/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8535 ## Streaming the US now - **Paramount+:** [*Titanic*](https://film.one/film/titanic.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Gloria Stuart > Gloria Stuart spent the 1930s being calm in the middle of other people's pictures and was asked to do little else. Sixty years later, as Old Rose in *Titanic*, that same restraint turned out to be exactly what a very loud film needed. An old woman sits at a table on a salvage ship, surrounded by men who want to know where a diamond is, and tells them about a boy instead. That is Gloria Stuart in *Titanic* (1997), at 87, and it is the performance most people know her for. She does not raise her voice and she does not weep on cue. James Cameron's film is built for large feelings and James Horner's score keeps pushing towards them; Stuart is the one element that holds back, and the film is better for having somewhere quiet to return to. We were moved more than we expected to be, and it was because she declined to do the crying the men across the table were plainly waiting for. She had been a lead sixty years earlier. Universal signed her in 1932 and put her in pre-Code pictures, three of them for James Whale, and the two worth finding are *The Old Dark House* (1932), in which she is the poised guest among Boris Karloff and the storm, and *The Invisible Man* (1933), opposite Claude Rains. She worked twice for John Ford. Warner Bros borrowed her for *Here Comes the Navy* (1934), where Orry-Kelly dresses her against a wall of white uniforms so that she reads as the one person on screen not in the navy. She is warm in it and she does what she can, but Dorothy Martin is a prize, not a person: a brother to placate, a man to wait for, and nothing else. That was the pattern, and it did not change when she moved to Fox. The studios looked at her and saw an elegant blonde who could stand still at the centre of an ensemble and make everyone around her look more frantic, which is a real skill and a limited one, and they wrote for the limit. Critics then and since have said much the same: early promise, then routine pictures that used the face and not the actor. By 1946 she had largely stopped, dissatisfied with what she was being offered, and there were only sporadic returns from the late 1970s before Cameron came calling. Old Rose asks for the thing the thirties never wanted. Give Stuart something to withhold and she is good at it. Give her a man to wait for and she waits gracefully, which is all that can be said. After *Titanic* she worked occasionally, in film and on television, until *Land of Plenty* (2004). Her own account of the audition is the best note on her. After the first reading she wrote to Cameron, "I've re-read the script and I should've given it a feistier reading." She got the part anyway. The stillness was what he wanted, and it had been sitting unused since 1934. ## Biography Gloria Stuart was an American actress. She appeared in numerous films during the 1930s, including *The Old Dark House* (1932) and *The Invisible Man* (1933). Stuart returned to prominent screen roles late in her career as Old Rose in *Titanic* (1997). Her performance earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She also appeared in later television series such as *Murder, She Wrote* (1984) and *Touched by an Angel* (1994). Stuart died in 2010. *Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Titanic* (1997), Fi1m 84, as Old Rose — [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md) - *Here Comes the Navy* (1934), Fi1m 70, as Dorothy Martin — [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-the-navy.md) ## Complete filmography (79) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Buzz* (2005), Actor - *Land of Plenty* (2004), as Old Lady - *Miracles* (2003), series, as Rosanna Wye - *Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man* (2001), as Eliza Hoops - *The Invisible Man* (2000), series, as Madeline Fawkes - *My Mother the Spy* (2000), as Grandma - *The Million Dollar Hotel* (2000), as Jessica - *The Love Letter* (1999), as Eleanor - *The Titanic Chronicles* (1999), as (voice) - *Titanic* (1997), as Old Rose — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md) - *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, as Grams - *She Knows Too Much* (1989), as Kiki Watwood - *Shootdown* (1988), as Gertrude - *There Were Times, Dear* (1987), Actor - *Wildcats* (1986), as Mrs. Connoly - *Mass Appeal* (1984), as Mrs. Curry - *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Edna Jarvis - *Manimal* (1983), series, Actor - *My Favorite Year* (1982), as Mrs. Horn - *The Violation of Sarah McDavid* (1981), as Mrs. Fowler - *Enos* (1980), series, Actor - *Fun and Games* (1980), as Terri - *The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan* (1979), as Roberta - *The Best Place to Be* (1979), Actor - *The Horror Show* (1979), as (archive footage) - *The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel* (1979), as Rose Hooper - *Battered* (1978), Actor - *Flood!* (1977), as Mrs. Parker - *In the Glitter Palace* (1977), as Mrs. Bowman - *Adventures of the Queen* (1975), as Female Passenger - *The Legend of Lizzie Borden* (1975), as Store customer - *The Waltons* (1972), series, Actor - *She Wrote the Book* (1946), as Phyllis Fowler - *Enemy of Women* (1944), as Bertha, actress - *The Whistler* (1944), as Alice Walker - *Here Comes Elmer* (1943), as Glenda Forbes - *It Could Happen to You* (1939), as Doris Winslow - *Winner Take All* (1939), as Julie Harrison - *The Three Musketeers* (1939), as Queen Anne - *The Lady Objects* (1938), as Ann Adams Hayward - *Time Out for Murder* (1938), as Margie Ross - *Keep Smiling* (1938), as Carol Walters - *Island in the Sky* (1938), as Julie Hayes - *Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm* (1938), as Gwen Warren - *Change of Heart* (1938), as Carol Murdock - *Life Begins in College* (1937), as Janet O'Hara - *The Lady Escapes* (1937), as Linda Ryan - *Girl Overboard* (1937), as Mary Chesbrooke - *Wanted: Jane Turner* (1936), as Doris Martin - *The Girl on the Front Page* (1936), as Joan Langford - *36 Hours to Kill* (1936), as Anne Marvis - *Poor Little Rich Girl* (1936), as Margaret Allen - *The Crime of Dr. Forbes* (1936), as Ellen Godfrey - *The Prisoner of Shark Island* (1936), as Mrs. Peggy Mudd - *Professional Soldier* (1935), as Countess Sonia - *Laddie* (1935), as Pamela Pryor - *Gold Diggers of 1935* (1935), as Ann Prentiss - *Maybe It's Love* (1935), as Bobby Halevy - *Gift of Gab* (1934), as Barbara Kelton - *Here Comes the Navy* (1934), as Dorothy Martin — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-the-navy.md) - *The Love Captive* (1934), as Alice Trask - *I'll Tell the World* (1934), as Jane Hamilton - *I Like it That Way* (1934), as Anne Rogers - *Beloved* (1934), as Lucy Tarrant Hausmann - *Roman Scandals* (1933), as Princess Sylvia - *The Invisible Man* (1933), as Flora Cranley - *Secret of the Blue Room* (1933), as Irene von Helldorf - *It's Great to Be Alive* (1933), as Dorothy Wilton - *The Girl in 419* (1933), as Mary Dolan - *The Kiss Before the Mirror* (1933), as Lucy Bernsdorf - *Sweepings* (1933), as Phoebe - *Private Jones* (1933), as Mary Gregg - *Laughter in Hell* (1933), as Lorraine - *Air Mail* (1932), as Ruth Barnes - *The Old Dark House* (1932), as Margaret Waverton - *The All-American* (1932), as Ellen Steffens - *Back Street* (1932), as Young Woman (uncredited) - *Street of Women* (1932), as Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin - *The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood* (1932), as Gloria Stuart ## Gallery - ![Promotional photo of Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin (The Invisible Man) and Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley in The Invisible Man (1933).](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-9598f2d741e3.jpg) Promotional photo of Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin (The Invisible Man) and Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley in The Invisible Man (1933). — Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Claude_Rains_and_Gloria_Stuart_in_The_Invisible_Man_%281933%29.jpg/1280px-Claude_Rains_and_Gloria_Stuart_in_The_Invisible_Man_%281933%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gloria Stuart](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-16f249fe8096.jpg) Gloria Stuart — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Gloria_Stewart.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![One of Stuart's Watts Towers, January 1972](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-7496f65a2d5f.jpg) One of Stuart's Watts Towers, January 1972 — Miramaribelle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Gloria_Stuart%27s_Watts_Towers-4828-2.jpg/1280px-Gloria_Stuart%27s_Watts_Towers-4828-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gloria Stuart bonsai called "French black oak forest." Was planted by Gloria Stuart in 1982 after returning from France where she picked the acorns while tourin (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-ecb3b763a86c.jpg) Gloria Stuart bonsai called "French black oak forest." Was planted by Gloria Stuart in 1982 after returning from France where she picked the acorns while tourin (2010) — Hutch10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Gloria_Stuart-French_black_oak_forest.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gloria Stuart](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-d776adf598df.jpg) Gloria Stuart — Image via TMDB - ![Promotional mask from 1933 for The Invisible Man](https://film.one/media/person/87058/gallery-4228580d9012.jpg) Promotional mask from 1933 for The Invisible Man — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Gloria_Stuart_-_Invisible_Man_promotional_mask.jpg/1280px-Gloria_Stuart_-_Invisible_Man_promotional_mask.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1998: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *Titanic* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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