'Titanic' co-star Gloria Stuart dies at 100

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gloria Stuart, the Hollywood actress of the 1930s who gained an Oscar nomination 60 years later for her role as the spunky survivor in ``Titanic,'' has died. She was 100.

Monday, September 27th 2010, 2:42 PM EDT

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Tuesday, September 28th 2010, 11:36 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gloria Stuart, the Hollywood actress of the 1930s who gained an Oscar nomination 60 years later for her role as the spunky survivor in ``Titanic,'' has died. She was 100.

Her grandson, Benjamin Stuart Thompson, says Stuart died in her sleep Sunday night at her Los Angeles home.

In her youth, Stuart was a blond beauty who starred in B pictures as well as higher-profile ones like ``The Invisible Man'' and two Shirley Temple movies.

She resumed acting occasionally in later years and was selected to play the elderly Titanic survivor portrayed by Kate Winslet as a young woman.

The 1997 ``Titanic'' became the biggest modern blockbuster up to that point. Both Winslet and Stuart, then 87, were nominated for Oscars.