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Born July 4,
l910, GLORIA STUART had to endure two hours of aging makeup to
play the 101-year-old Rose Calvert, a woman who claims to be a
survivor of the Titanic disaster. Stuart starred in dozens of
movies from 1930 until WWII, when she retired. Among them are
John Ford's "Air Mail" and "The Prisoner of Shark
Island," "Here Comes the Navy" with James Cagney,
"Poor Little Rich Girl" with Shirley Temple, Busby
Berkeley's "Goldiggers of 1935," "Roman
Scandals" with Eddie Cantor, "The Three
Musketeers" with the Ritz Brothers, and two films with the
English horror film director James Whale, "The Kiss Before
the Mirror" and the classic "The Old Dark House,"
co-starring Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Massey and
Boris Karloff. Since the '40s, the Santa Monica-born Stuart has
lead an extremely productive existence as an accomplished
painter, collage artist, printer, gardener of bonsai, hostess,
wife, mother, grandmother and world traveler.
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