Interesting Facts

About Leo, Kate, and Titanic

Kate Winslet used to work at a deli slicing ham in London.
Kate, 22, is the youngest actress to earn two Oscar nominations ('95 for Sense and Sensibility and Titanic this year).
"Insiders" say Leonardo DiCaprio could make $20 million for furture starring roles. (He got $2.5 million for Titanic.)
Kate and Leo would switch shoes, wrestle, chain smoke, and even exchange sex tips during breaks.
Both Kate and Leo agree that having a romantic relationship is unthinkable. "We'd laugh too much," said Kate.
Titanic is the first film in history to gross one billion dollars worldwide.
James Cameron describes the fasination of (the real) Titanic: "It would be like if you took a jumbo jet filled with half of the stars in Hollywood and crashed it into the Washington Monument."

About Molly Brown, William Hartley, and Other Real Passengers

Quartermaster Robert Hichens, who commanded Lifeboat Six which contained Molly Brwon, dismissed a flare of an approaching ship as a shooting star.
Molly Brown threatened to throw her boat's officer overboard and then took command, ordering the women to row so they would keep warm.
Titanic sank with a $325,000 necklace of Molly's.
Molly helped raise funds for the poor survivors.
John Jacob Astor IV and his wife Madeline were heading to America to have thier baby.
Madeline named the baby John Jacob Astor V after her late husband.
John Astor asked to be allowed to go with Madeline after informing the officer of her condition, but he wasn't allowed. His body was found covered with soot. He is believed to have been hit by a falling smokestack.
Ida Straus denied lifeboat safety twice, instead choosing to die with her husband of 41 years.
Isador and Ida Straus are memorialized in a Bronx cemetary with the inscription "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."
6,000 people attended the Straus' memorial service.
Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon were both allowed into Lifebaost No. 1.
Sir Cosmo gave the two crew members on their boat $360 (today's money) to replace the things they had lost; people said it was a bribe.
The scorn endured by the Duff-Gordons is described: "... it was almost worse for them to have survived than to go down."
It is uncertain wheter J. Bruce Ismay really ordered more speed or not.
Dorthy Gibbons, a silent-film star, was rescued from "Titanic" and became known for her work in Saved from the Titanic; her costume was the dress she wore that night.
Passengers all agree that there was music while the ship was sinking.
The final song played by the orchestra that night remians debateable. Wallace Hartley, orchestra leader, had previously said that if the ship sank, he was going to play either "Nearer My God to Thee" or "O, Go, Our Help in Ages Past."
Wallace Hartley tried to skip the Titanic voyage, but decided playing on Titanic would provide good contacts.
40,000 people attended Hartley's funeral
Wallace Hartley was to be wed after the voyage.

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Information taken from People magazine, week of March 16, 1998.

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