List of Gloria Stuart performances

Gloria Stuart (July 4, 1910 – September 26, 2010) was an American film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She made her feature film debut in Street of Women (1932), before signing a contract with Universal Pictures. She appeared in numerous Pre-code era films for the studio, including the horror comedy The Old Dark House (1932), and the drama Laughter in Hell (1933). She starred as Flora Cranley in The Invisible Man (1933), which garnered her widespread fame, and later starred in two films opposite Shirley Temple: Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), both for 20th Century Fox. She subsequently co-starred in The Three Musketeers (1939) opposite Don Ameche.

Stuart in 1932

Dissatisfied with her career in film, Stuart shifted her focus to stage acting. Between 1940 and 1942, Stuart appeared in numerous summer stock plays in New England, including a 1940 production of Our Town in which she starred alongside its playwright and director, Thornton Wilder. By the mid-1940s, Stuart was dedicating her time to the pursuit of various visual arts, including painting, printmaking, serigraphy, Bonsai, and découpage. She gradually returned to acting in the 1970s after a decades-long career as an artist, appearing in minor roles in such films as Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year (1982) and Wildcats (1986).

Stuart was cast as 101-year-old Rose Calvert in James Cameron's drama Titanic (1997), which earned her international notoriety, as well as numerous accolades, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; which as of 2021, she remains the oldest nominee for the category. Her final film performance was a minor part in Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), before her death in 2010 at age 100.

Film

• Note: Some sources include Back Street (1932) in Stuart's filmography in an uncredited performance; since Stuart does not mention the film in her book, and because she is not listed in Back Street, this film is not included below.

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1932	Street of Women	Doris "Dodo" Baldwin
1932	The All American	Ellen Steffens		[1]
1932	The Old Dark House	Margaret Waverton		[1]
1932	Air Mail	Ruth Barnes		[1]
1933	Laughter in Hell	Lorraine		[1]
1933	Sweepings	Phoebe		[1]
1933	Private Jones	Mary Gregg		[1]
1933	The Kiss Before the Mirror	Lucy Bernsdorf		[1]
1933	The Girl in 419	Mary Dolan		[1]
1933	It's Great to Be Alive	Dorothy Wilton		[1]
1933	The Secret of the Blue Room	Irene von Helldorf		[1]
1933	The Invisible Man	Flora Cranley		[1]
1933	Roman Scandals	Princess Sylvia		[1]
1934	Beloved	Lucy Tarrant Hausmann		[1]
1934	I Like It That Way	Anne Rogers/Dolly Lavern		[1]
1934	I'll Tell the World	Jane Hamilton		[1]
1934	The Love Captive	Alice Trask		[1]
1934	Here Comes the Navy	Dorothy		[1]
1934	Gift of Gab	Barbara Kelton		[1]
1935	Maybe It's Love	Bobby Halevy		[1]
1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Ann Prentiss		[1]
1935	Laddie	Pamela Pryor		[1]
1935	Professional Soldier	Countess Sonia		[1]
1936	The Prisoner of Shark Island	Mrs. Peggy Mudd		[1]
1936	The Crime of Dr. Forbes	Ellen Godfrey		[1]
1936	Poor Little Rich Girl	Margaret Allen		[1]
1936	36 Hours to Kill	Anne Marvis		[1]
1936	The Girl on the Front Page	Joan Langford		[1]
1936	Wanted! Jane Turner	Doris Martin		[1]
1937	Girl Overboard	Mary Chesbrooke		[1]
1937	The Lady Escapes	Linda Ryan		[1]
1937	Life Begins in College	Janet O'Hara		[1]
1938	Change of Heart	Carol Murdock		[1]
1938	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Gwen Warren		[1]
1938	Island in the Sky	Julie Hayes		[1]
1938	Keep Smiling	Carol Walters		[1]
1938	Time Out for Murder	Margie Ross		[1]
1938	The Lady Objects	Ann Adams Hayward		[1]
1939	The Three Musketeers	Queen Anne		[1]
1939	Winner Take All	Julie Harrison		[1]
1939	It Could Happen to You	Doris Winslow		[1]
1943	Here Comes Elmer	Glenda Forbes		[1]
1944	The Whistler	Alice Walker		[1]
1944	Enemy of Women	Bertha		[1]
1946	She Wrote the Book	Phyllis Fowler		[1]
1975	The Legend of Lizzie Borden	Store customer	Television film	[2]
1975	Adventures of the Queen	Female passenger	Television film	[2]
1976	Flood!	Mrs. Parker	Television film	[3]
1977	In the Glitter Palace	Mrs. Bowman	Television film	[4]
1979	The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel	Rose Hooper	Television film	[4]
1979	The Best Place to Be		Television film	[4]
1979	The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan	Roberta	Television film	[4]
1980	Fun and Games	Terri	Television film	[4]
1981	The Violation of Sarah McDavid	Mrs. Fowler	Television film	[4]
1981	Merlene of the Movies	Evangeline Eaton	Television film	[4]
1982	My Favorite Year	Mrs. Horn		[1]
1984	Mass Appeal	Mrs. Curry		[5]
1985	There Were Times, Dear		Television film	[4]
1986	Wildcats	Mrs. Connoly		[1]
1988	Shootdown	Gertrude	Television film	[4]
1989	She Knows Too Much	Kiki Watwood	Television film	[4]
1997	Titanic	Rose Dawson Calvert		[1]
1999	The Love Letter	Eleanor		[6]
1999	The Titanic Chronicles	Helen Bishop	Voice role	[7]
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Jessica		[8]
2000	My Mother, the Spy	Grandma	Television film	[4]
2001	Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man	Eliza Hoops	Television film	[9]
2004	Land of Plenty	Old lady		[10]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1975	The Waltons	Saleswoman	1 episode	[4]
1980	Enos	Lilly	1 episode	[4]
1983	Manimal	Bag Lady	1 episode	[4]
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Edna Jarvis	Episode: "The Days Dwindle Down"	[4]
2001	The Invisible Man	Madeline Fawkes	1 episode	[9]
2001	Touched by an Angel	Grams	1 episode	[9]
2002–2003	General Hospital	Catherine	2 episodes	[9]
2003	Miracles	Rosanna Wye	1 episode	[9]

Music videos

Year	Title	Performer	Notes	Ref.
1998	"River"	Hanson	Reprised role as a parody of her character in Titanic	[11]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1931	The Seagull	Masha	The Playbox, Pasadena, California	[12]
1940	Accent on Youth	Linda Brown	Guilford Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	[13]
1940	The Animal Kingdom	Daisy Sage	Town Hall Playhouse, Westborough, Massachusetts	[14]
1940	Our Town	Emily Webb	University of Massachusetts Amherst	[15]
1940–1942	Night of January 16th	Karen Andre	Regional New England tour[16]	[17]
1941	Arms and the Man	Raina Petkoff	Drama Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan	[18]
1941	Mr. and Mrs. North	Pamela North	County Theater, Suffern, New York	[18]
1942	The Dark Tower	Patsy Dowling	Cambridge Summer Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts	[19]
1942	Sailor Beware!	Billie Jackson	Flatbush Theater, Brooklyn, New York City	[20]

References

1. "Gloria Stuart Filmography". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles: American Film Institute. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018.
2. Mank 2005, p. 144.
3. Deal 2011, p. 67.
4. Lentz 2011, p. 413.
5. Mank 2005, p. 145.
6. Harmetz, Arthur; Berkvist, Robert (September 27, 2010). "Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
7. "The Titanic Chronicles". The DVD-laser Disc Newsletter (173–183). New York: DVD-Laser Disc Newsletter: 42. November 1999. ISSN 0749-5250.
8. Stratton, David (February 9, 2000). "The Million Dollar Hotel". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018.
9. Lentz 2011, p. 414.
10. Bergan, Ronald (September 28, 2010). "Gloria Stuart obituary". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013.
11. "Hanson, Weird Al Spoof "Titanic" In Video". MTV. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
12. McLellan, Dennis (September 27, 2010). "Gloria Stuart dies at 100; 'Titanic' actress". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
13. Perry, Florence Fisher (July 28, 1940). "I Dare Say". Pittsburgh Press. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Town Hall Playhouse Will Open June 22". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York City. June 7, 1940. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Gloria Stuart To Appear With Thornton Wilder". The Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. August 10, 1940. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Gloria Stuart". The Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. August 3, 1940. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
17. Stuart & Thompson 1999, p. 129.
18. "Summer Theaters". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York City. July 9, 1941. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Concerts and Plays Tonight". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. July 14, 1942. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
20. Francis, Robert (August 26, 1942). "Flatbush Revives 'Sailor Beware' With Fine Cast". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York City. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.

Sources

• Deal, Dave (2011). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-45514-0.
• Gardner, Gerald; Bellows, Jim (2007). 80: From Ben Bradlee to Lena Horne to Carl Reiner, Our Most Famous Eighty Year Olds, Reveal Why They Never Felt So Young. Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-40220-840-9.
• Lentz, Harris M. III (2011). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2010. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-44175-4.
• Mank, Gregory William (2005). Women in Horror Films, 1930s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-78642-334-7.
• Stuart, Gloria; Thompson, Sylvia (1999). Gloria Stuart: I Just Kept Hoping. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. ISBN 0-316-81571-3.