Still going strong today at the age of 89, Stuart has now added authorship to her list of achievements.
She had her first go-around at stardom in the Hollywood heyday of the 1930s and ’40s then, after taking off 30 years or so to pursue painting, travel, and political activism, she again began to act in the 1970s, eventually garnering a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Titanic. It’s been a long, eventful life for former and current movie star Gloria Stuart. So, to celebrate her 111th birthday, we thought we’d share the interview we did with her in 1999. After all, this is the women who starred opposite Claude Rains in James Whale‘s The Invisible Man, who appeared with Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, and Charles Laughton in The Old Dark House, who worked with greats such as Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Pat O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold, Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, and dozens more. We considered it quite a thrill, we don’t mind telling you, to get to interact with Ms.
Stuart when she came to NYC for her book party. The interview was conducted over the telephone, though we did get the chance to meet Ms. In 1999, when she was just a kid of 89, we got to interview her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, I Just Kept Hoping. Gloria Stuart was born on Independence Day, 1910, in Santa Monica, California.
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