Gloria I Just Kept Hoping Author:Sylvia Thompson At age 87, Gloria Stuart became the oldest actor ever nominated for an Academy Award. Now, cowritten with her daughter Sylvia Thompson, comes her rich, candid, anecdotal memoir offering a panoramic view of old Hollywood and its personalities. Detailing her own inspiring history, she tells how she began her career back in the 1930s as a character... more » actress. She fondly recalls her days as a political activist, and at roughly the same time, the role she played as one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Anti-Fascist Committee. Over her extraordinary long career, Stuart has seen it all and known just about everyone there has been to know, and at long last, shares her nostalgic story here.« less