![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 4, 1910 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA S Biography:Blonde, serene-looking film actress "Gloria Stuart" forsook her stage career when she was signed to two separate movie contracts in 1932. It took a court arbitrator to determine which studio would be permitted to make use of Stuart's services, Paramount or Universal. Universal won, and soon the actress was starring in such memorable films as "James Whale"'s "The Old Dark House" (1932) and "The Invisible Man" (1933).
From 1936 on, Stuart, who was born in Santa Monica, CA, on July 4, 1910, was contracted to 20th Century Fox, where among many other films she appeared in "John Ford"'s "Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), the "Shirley Temple" vehicle "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938), and the Ritz Brothers version of "The Three Musketeers" (1939). Gradually retiring from films in the early '40s to return to her stage origins, Stuart subsequently decided to devote her time to her second husband,... Full Biography
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