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Best-Two4264 t1_je7up18 wrote

Wonder if she brought up how Rose had more than enough room to let Jack on the floating door but chose to let him die. I mean after all that y’all had been through. Anyway hit it Celine

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Viperbunny t1_je7zocx wrote

She did it because she wanted people to understand what they had gone through and wanted the survivors to have some way to tell their story. Instead, people labeled her a money grabbing opportunitist and it destroyed her career.

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YourlocalTitanicguy t1_je8nqke wrote

Not quite, although your overall point is correct :) The only real evidence we have of her personal drama is all press, and it’s not really great source material :)

1912 society loved melodrama, and the frenzy and demand for Titanic material started to turn violent. It’s just good press for your film if you can promote an actual survivor, in actual clothes, and on top of that paint her as a tortured yet heroic figure bravely fighting her trauma for you… the viewer. This was a society obsessed with heroics. The reports of her bravery were all carefully constructed in press releases from her studio.

As for ‘ruined’ … I wouldn’t say so. The film was an international hit, with a only a few editorials grumbling about taste. Dorothy’s stepping away from film seemed to be more a choice than a failure. Her very scandalous public affair and case of manslaughter did much more to derail her than a hit movie, but she did switch to theatre and opera between the two.

Whatever happened, we don’t know, but like you said - after that film she went from being a huge movie star to …. not. There are multiple possibilities why, but our sources are all tabloid and come with the purchase of a salt mine :) the film itself though was very popular.

She went on to live, well… quite a wild life :)

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YourlocalTitanicguy t1_je8uecc wrote

Fun Fact!

While ‘Saved from the Titanic’ gets all the press, it was just one of three Titanic films made in 1912. The other two still survive and are on YouTube!

In Nacht und Eis

La Hantise

Now, Titanic is sort of shoehorned in to ‘La Hantise’, but (IMO) what’s most interesting about it is, due to the very limited special effects, it accidentally does a decent job portraying the sinking… all things considered of course :)

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