Titanic Actress Gloria Stuart Passes Away

Gloria Stuart, with actor Bill Paxton, in a scene from the film Titanic. By Merie W. Wallace, Paramount Pictures



Gloria Stuart, who played the older Rose in Titanic, has died at age 100.Stuart, a Hollywood leading lady in the 1930s who starred in such films as Gold Diggers of 1935, died at her home in West Los Angeles.

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The Washington Post reports that Stuart's daughter Sylvia Thompson confirmed that her mother, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer several years ago, died Sunday at her home in west Los Angeles.