Titanic Articles

Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart in James Whale's The Old Dark House Gloria Stuart Dies: TITANIC, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE INVISIBLE MAN In the '40s, Gloria Stuart did stage work and later retired from acting altogether, devoting her time to painting and fine printing. Her comeback in front of the camera took place in the mid-'70s, a few years prior to the 1978 death of [...]

Gloria Stuart in a publicity shot from the 1930s (top); Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in Titanic (bottom) Gloria Stuart, the pretty, blonde leading lady in the Universal horror classics The Old Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933), and the elderly Rose in James Cameron's megablockbuster Titanic (1997), died on Sunday, Sept. 26. Stuart had turned 100 last July 4; a breast-cancer survivor, [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire received a phenomenal boost during the year-end awards season, especially as a result of its eight Academy Award nominations and subsequent eight wins. Fourteen Oscar nods and eleven wins certainly didn't hurt James Cameron's Titanic, either, while Rob Marshall's musical Chicago collected nearly two-thirds of its grosses and Clint Eastwood's Million [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in Titanic (top); Sam Worthington in Avatar (bottom) AVATAR Box Office: #15 on Inflation-Adjusted Chart Avatar has just beaten Titanic's worldwide box-office record in inflation-adjusted US-dollar terms. As per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator, Titanic would have grossed $2.450 billion in 2010 US dollars, or about $16 million less than Avatar, a blockbuster that continues to break box-office [...]