Gloria Stuart

Gloria Stuart started acting in high school in Santa Monica, moved through Berkeley and summer stock, and signed with Universal in 1932. She spent the decade in horror pictures like The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, Shirley Temple musicals, and a turn as Queen Anne in The Three Musketeers. In 1940 she pulled back to regional theater, then left film altogether in 1945 to work as a fine printer and visual artist — her serigraphy and miniature books landed in the Met and LACMA. She drifted back to bit parts in the late 1970s, but the call that mattered came in 1997: Titanic, at 86, playin…