page_title: Gloria Stuart
section_title: Culinary interest
hierarchical_section_title: Gloria Stuart / Culinary interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Gloria Stuart posed cooking in Photoplay, 1933
context_page_description: Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, visual artist, and activist. She was initially known for her roles in Pre-Code films, though she would garner renewed fame later in life for her portrayal of Rose Dawson Calvert in James Cameron's disaster romantic drama Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time to that point. Her performance in the film won her a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  A native of Santa Monica, California, Stuart began acting while in high school. After attending the University of California, Berkeley, she embarked on a career in theater, performing in local productions and summer stock in Los Angeles and New York City. She signed a film contract with Universal Pictures in 1932, and acted in numerous films for the studio, including the horror films The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, followed by roles in the Shirley Temple musicals Poor Little Rich Girl and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She also starred as Queen Anne in the musical comedy The Three Musketeers.
  Beginning in 1940, Stuart slowed her film career, instead performing in regional theater in New England.
context_section_description: Stuart was a skilled amateur chef and hosted frequent dinner parties in Hollywood. She was close friends with the American food writer M.F.K. Fisher, who was godmother to Stuart's daughter Sylvia Vaughn Thompson. Thompson later wrote about Stuart's cooking style: "My mother has never made Just Roast Beef in her life. It wouldn't interest her. Her style is based on the intricacies of composition. It borders on the baroque. Everyone adores it."
  After tasting Stuart's goose in Kirschwasser aspic, the writer Samuel Hoffenstein composed a poem, which he comically said was inspired by "hearing the wings of all the poets brush thro' Gloria's kitchen."
  Stuart's mother Alice was also an avid cook, producing specialties from the San Joaquin Valley, where Stuart's mother's family lived for generations.
caption: Gloria Stuart shown cooking in Photoplay, January 1933
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