BREAKING! Gloria Stuart, dead!

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She couldn't face living without Joan Crawford.

She made it to 100.

on her iPod - "in the Navy"

God bless her!

She promised she'd never let go!

Pity. She had so much more to live for.

Who gives a shit?

Who did she lose the Oscar to again? I remember being very upset when she lost. I was such a little faggot.

Her heart will go on.

See you in your dreams!

She lost to Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential) when it should've been Joan Cusack (In & Out)

She would have been ideal to play Huguette Clark in the Lifetime movie.

I'm going to watch THE OLD DARK HOUSE today in honor of her life!

One of the last, if not the last, surviving actresses of 1930's Warner Brothers musical films.

She seemed like a cool lady, how great she was able to get a "second" career.

Sorry R12. Kim all the way. She was fabulous in LA Confidential, a DVD I have re-watched at least 30 times.

I didn't know she was still alive, but I'm saddened at hearing of her death. By the time one gets to 100 I'm sure the will to live forever may have seemed to be a fete acccompli.

I loved Gaytanic.

In, out the pain makes me shout! I believe we need more lube. You slut, you live for my butt! And, my mouth is so open and wide!

Hah!

[quote]fete acccompli

Ah, mon dieu!

"One of the last, if not the last, surviving actresses of 1930's Warner Brothers musical films."

But I was a bigger Warner"s 1930's star and I am STILL ALIVE DAMMIT!

OMG! Titanic was on TV last night!

Do you suppose she watched it and croaked?

Did she smoke?

Before or after R23?

[quote] Did she smoke?

Didn't everybody in Hollywood in the '30s and '40s?

If I live to be 100, there will definitely be a fete accompli

Yes, and that damn smoking shortened her life.

Same as my dad. Smoked in the Pacific during WWII, then quit upon disharge.

Died prematurely at 89.

Tobacco kills every time. One ciggie or 1 million -- all the same.

P. S. NO ONE EVER GOT LUNG CANCER BEFORE CIGARETTES!

If only she hadn't smoked she wouldn't have died so young. Let this be a lesson, smokers - if you don't quit you might only live to be 100.

Has somebody broken the news to Glenn? They've known each other since they were children. I hope she'll be all right.

I'm still the badest old bat on the block!

I win!

That hardly merits an exclamation mark.

How did she die so quickly? She just had her 100th birthday party in June.

I guess when you're that old you can die of old age at any time?

I assume she wasn't a heavy smoker if she lived to 100?

The L.A. Times article said she had lung cancer. Was she a smoker?

I'm going to fucking bawl when Joan and Olivia go. I'm not ready.

If she didn't get lung cancer, she would have lived even longer.

The L.A. Times reported that her last words were, "Please don't cancel "Ghost Whisperer""

Wikipedia has been updated:

She doesn't really rate a place in the galaxy of stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.

She's fine! She sends her love!

Has Shirley Temple commented?

[quote]fete acccompli

"After the ball is over, After the break of morn – After the dancers' leaving; After the stars are gone; Many a heart is aching, If you could read them all; Many the hopes that have vanished After the ball."

IMDB article

This really makes you think. It's very troubling.

So young. So young!

I think it's great that she found stardom at such a late age.

Even she commented about the fact that she had to deal with not being Greta Garbo.

I don't think she had a problem with not being on top. By any measure, she had a pretty great life. God bless the old dame!

She was too young to go.

A life tragically cut short.

r22, I thought the same thing.

r43 your post is the only one that is strangely poignant. The ONLY one. Those lyrics I suppose.

In the 30s Gloria was a stunningly beautiful woman. Luise Ranier was an ogre compared to her.

Damnit. Who will change my diaper now?

I made it to almost 102, so fuckyas all!

AND while smothered in diamonds, feet up, knocking back Johnnie Walker, having a flutter on the gee-gees in front of the telly, with hot and cold running staff, and an overdraft that would choke your little whining purse-filled mouths.

THAT'S how to do it properly.

Jealous, peasant bitches?

Nice piece on NPR.

Her daughter is about 75 years old. I wonder if she's still alive.

I will never forgive her for playing the role in TITANIC that should have gone to Olivia DeHavilland. It would have been the perfect bookend to GWTW for her, each the mammoth blockbuster of its time. Instead, James Cameron foisted this wooden, amateurish 1930s B-movie nobody on us as if she were some silver screen goddess just waiting for her film comeback. It was sheer ludicrousness.

What will happen to all the dust mites on her pussy?

Will she be buried at sea?

My, R57, but that's a lovely matching caftan and turban ensemble you're wearing! Have another Cosmo, dear.

R57 is right that Stuart was never a great actress in her heyday, but neither were many of the other B-level stars of the day. Stuart was hired for her Old Hollywood cred and, in "Titanic", she did admirably.

Was she pleasuring herself at the time?

When she wrote her memoirs after TITANIC came out - and she was close to 90 - she wrote a whole long chapter about the joys of masturbation at her age - and any age.

Was she not one of the original founders of SAG? That alone she should be honored for.

"I will never forgive her for playing the role in TITANIC that should have gone to Olivia DeHavilland."

Why is that Stuart's fault? And how do we know Olivia even wanted it?

Hollywood's Last Flapper Goes Down the Crapper.

Did someone call Mary Kate Olsen?

In the 30s Gloria was a stunningly beautiful woman. Luise Ranier was an ogre compared to her.

An ogre with TWO Academy Awards!

But I'm sure Gloria's Academy nomination certificate kept her warm at night.

I still can't believe she lost the Oscar to Kim Basinger!

Kim Bass in jer was very good in Confidential.

Stuart was sweet and effective in Titanic. But she didn't deserve an award for her performance.

I read her autobiography some time back. She was a fascinating woman—a true bohemian, and a true artist. She was also very dedicated to political causes, and helped co-found SAG and was part of the Anti-Nazi League in the '30s. Her life was something for the storybooks.

Did she od?

How the heck was a thread from 2010 still open?

So insulting to be ashes to play 101 when you're only 87

[quote] and helped co-found SAG

Ahh, so that's why she was nominated for Titanic.

Block of wood

R75 That film required a old woman who WASN'T a termagant.

If Kate Hepburn played the role there'd be a thousand waspy memes on how young big Kate turned into old quivering Kate.

Why is this shit being dredged back up?

Our resident rightwing troll defacturd does it to irritate people.

This is giving me PTSD it’s reminding me of the first time this happened.

who?

R70 is correct about her.

RIP.

I didn't know she died.

Just kidding.

I forgot.

And, then I wasn't sure.

RIP.

Somebody check on Jessica Tandy!

Thank goodness Natalie Schafer is safe! (Though quiet as of late.)

Francisco Franco is still dead.

Never seen a piece of wood act before

Susan Dey, respect your elder dearly departed and say something.