With a net worth of $87 million when he died in the sinking in 1912, he was the richest man in America, and possibly the world. He was, in fact, married to an 18 year-old (at the age of 41) at the time of Titanic’s voyage, a major scandal at the time which was mentioned in the film. He was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War. The fourth in line of the Astor family, the first millionaires in America, John Astor IV (Eric Braeden) perished when the Titanic sank. There is also a 1964 film titled The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds as Brown. After surviving the sinking, she adopted the nickname “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and became a socialite, philanthropist, actress, and activist, living until 1932 when she died of a brain tumor at the age of 65. Brown was, in fact, a lower-class woman whose husband built his own wealth, making her “new money” as she was referred to on board. The wealthy Molly Brown (Kathy Bates) was real and reportedly did convince a rescue boat to turn around and look for survivors, as Bates’ character in the film attempts to no avail. He went down with the ship during the sinking.
The Titanic was to be Smith’s final post, captaining the ship until such a time as the White Star Line constructed a larger vessel. If only that guy knew…Ĭaptain smith, portrayed by uncanny look-alike Bernard Hill, was the ship’s true captain. James Cameron was unaware of this Dawson until after the film was made- a fact that didn’t stop legions of fans from visiting his grave in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they left cinema stubs, personal photos, and pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio. Dawson.” However, the J stood for Joseph, and he was a coal trimmer employed as part of the ship’s crew. Jack is a complete fabrication of James Cameron, though there was a man on board named “J. Here are some:Īlthough James Cameron modeled Rose (Kate Winslet) after American avant-garde artist and potter Beatrice Wood (co-founder of The Blind Man magazine in New York City), Wood had no actual connection to the ship. As such, they both pulled real people from history and invented their own characters, meshing the two and changing the details as necessary to build an ensemble cast of interesting beings-some of which are more rooted in reality than others.
While James Cameron and company were incredibly diligent when it came to creating an on-screen Titanic that resembled the original ship and its manner of destruction to the smallest details, they were still creating a film that audiences needed to enjoy, and developing a story that could serve as an emotional counterpoint to the depressing reality of the ship’s fate.
It took the legendary tale of the massive ship’s maiden and final voyage and coupled it with a heartwarming love story and colorful characters. It is a cinematic masterpiece of effects, effectively taking the Titanic story off the radar for any future film adaptation. James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) is one of the most famous movies ever produced.
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