20 Things You Didn't Know About Batman & Robin
5. Batgirl's Mother Was The Old Lady From Titanic
1997 turned out to be a good year for veteran actress Gloria Stuart, who picked up an Academy Award nomination for her role in Titanic at the age of 86. Not only did she play a memorable role in what became the biggest movie of all time, she also made an appearance in one of the year's biggest disasters, but was lucky enough that most people didn't even notice she was even a part of Batman & Robin.
As we all know, the movie retconned Batgirl's origin story to make her Alfred's niece instead of Commissioner Gordon's daughter, and Bruce Wayne's butler speaks fondly of his sister and Barbara's mother Margaret, or Peg as he knows her. We see a framed photo of her on Alfred's desk, which is actually a publicity still of Gloria Stuart taken from 1937's Life Begins in College, giving Stuart the rare distinction of appearing in one of the biggest hits and biggest bombs of the same year.