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Gloria Stuart arrives at the 70th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March, 23, 1998. She earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role as the elder version of Kate Winslet's character Rose Calvert in "Titanic", making her the oldest actress ever nominated for an Academy Award. Stuart died of respiratory problems Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 100.
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Gloria Stuart arrives with her daughter Sylvia Thompson for the 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 16, 1998, in Los Angeles. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago and had beaten breast cancer about 20 years ago.
"She did not believe in illness. She paid no attention to it, and it served her well," her daughter Sylvia Thompson said. "She had a great life. I'm not sad. I'm happy for her."
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Actress Gloria Stuart poses with director James Cameron after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Sept. 27, 2000, in Los Angeles. Stuart, who began her acting career in the 1930s, starred in handful of films including "The Invisible Man," Busby Berkeley's "Gold Diggers of 1935" and two Shirley Temple movies, "Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
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"Titanic" costars, from left to right, Suzy Amis, Gloria Stuart, and Frances Fisher are seen at the premiere of James Cameron's "Dark Angel" on Sept. 25, 2000, in Los Angeles.
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Gloria Stuart attends the premiere of "Ghosts of the Abyss" at the Universal City Walk Theatre on March 31, 2003, in Los Angeles.
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Gloria Stuart attends the "Centennial Celebration with Gloria Stuart" event held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on July 22, 2010, in Beverly Hills.
