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|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. |death_cause = Respiratory failure; lung cancer |education = University of California, Berkeley |party=Democratic |occupation = Actress, artist, fine printer |years_active = 1932-2010 |spouse = Blair Gordon Newell (1930–1934; divorced) Arthur Sheekman (1934–1978; his death) |children = Sylvia Vaughn Thompson (b. 1935) }} Gloria Frances Stewart,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Getty Images )〕 known as Gloria Stuart, (July 4, 1910 – September 26, 2010) was an American actress and visual artist. Stuart began her acting career in theater. In the 1930s and 1940s, she performed in little theater and summer stock in Los Angeles and New York City. She signed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1932, and acted in numerous films, including ''The Old Dark House'' (1932), ''The Invisible Man'' (1933), and ''The Three Musketeers'' (1939). In 1945, Stuart abandoned her acting career and shifted to a career as an artist, working as a fine printer and making paintings, serigraphy, Bonsai, and découpage for the next five decades. She returned to acting in the late 1970s, appearing in several bit parts, including in Richard Benjamin's ''My Favorite Year'' (1982) and ''Wildcats'' (1986). In 1997, she was cast as the 100-year-old elder Rose Dawson in James Cameron's ''Titanic'', for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Receiving her nomination at eighty-seven, she is the oldest person nominated for an Academy Award for acting.〔 Her last film performance was in Wim Wenders' ''Land of Plenty'' (2004) before her death in 2010 at the age of 100. In addition to her acting and art career, Stuart was also an environmental activist and one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. ==Early life== Stuart was born Gloria Stewart 〔ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, City of Santa Monica, precinct 14, sheet No. 12B, line 52. Accessed September 15, 2014.〕 at 11:00 p.m. on the Fourth of July, 1910 on a kitchen table in Santa Monica, California. Stuart's father, Frank Stewart, born in Washington state〔ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census, City of Ocean Park, precinct 8, sheet No. 12A, line 20. Accessed September 15, 2014.〕 was an attorney representing The Six Companies, Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Stuart's brother, Frank Jr.,〔ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, City of Santa Monica, precinct 14, sheet No. 12B, line 53. Accessed September 15, 2014.〕 was born eleven months later. In two years, their brother Thomas was born, but he died of spinal meningitis aged three years. When Stuart was 9 years old, her father died of injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile. She was also expelled from grade school after kicking her teacher ("to be honest, she deserved it" she recalled). Hard-pressed to support two small children, her mother soon accepted the proposal of local businessman Fred J. Finch. Stuart went through school as Gloria Fae Finch.〔1927 Santa Monica High School yearbook, page 45.〕 She had not been given a middle name by her parents (not unusual in that era) and so adopted one, which was sometimes Frances, the feminine of Frank, her father's name. Stuart attended Santa Monica High School where she was active in theater, and had the lead in her senior class play, ''The Swan''.〔1927 Santa Monica High School yearbook.〕 She loved writing as much as acting, and spent her last two summers in high school taking short story and poetry writing classes and working as a cub reporter for the ''Santa Monica Outlook''. She enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in philosophy and drama, appeared in more plays, worked on the ''Daily Californian'',〔Pepe, Barbara. "Gloria Stuart". ''Hello.'' February 21, 1998, p. 8〕 contributed to the campus literary journal, ''Occident'', and posed as an artist's model. It was at Berkeley that she began signing her name Gloria ''Stuart''. At the end of her junior year, in June 1930, Stuart married Blair Gordon Newell, a young sculptor who apprenticed with Ralph Stackpole on the facade of the San Francisco Stock Exchange building. The Newells moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea where there was a stimulating community of artists and movers and shakers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Robinson Jeffers and Lincoln Steffens and his wife Ella Winter. Stuart acted at the Theatre of the Golden Bough and worked many jobs on ''The Carmelite'' newspaper. In her spare time she hand-sewed aprons, patchwork pillows and tea linens and created bouquets of dried flowers for a tea shop where she also waited on tables when needed. Newell laid brick, chopped and stacked wood, taught sculpture and woodworking, and managed a miniature golf course. They lived in a shack in the middle of a wood yard as night watchmen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gloria Stuart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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