Rose DeWitt Bukater
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Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt BukaterRose DeWitt Bukater is the fictional heroine of James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic. She was played by British actress Kate Winslet, and the 101-year-old Rose was played by 1930s film star Gloria Stuart.

Both actresses were nominated for Academy Awards, Winslet for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Stuart for Best Supporting Actress nomination, becoming the oldest person to receive an acting nomination (she was 86 when she appeared in the film). This was the first time two actresses had been Oscar-nominated for playing the same character.

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Seventeen-year-old Rose was on a transatlantic journey aboard the RMS Titanic, from Southampton, England to New York City in order for her to marry young business tycoon Caledon Hockley, a man she did not love, just so her mother Ruth DeWitt Bukater could become wealthy again. As a token of his devotion, Caledon presents her with a huge diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean", which Rose sees as a symbol of her oppression. Feeling trapped into a marriage she did not want, and feeling stifled by the restrictions of Upper Class society, she tried committing suicide by jumping off the back of the Titanic. However, a friendly young tramp, Jack Dawson saved her, and they fell deeply in love.

Despite the restrictions on board ship segregating the First and Third class passengers, Rose enjoyed several rendezvous with Jack over the next day or so, openly defying her mother and Caledon. On what would be her final night aboard Titanic, she asked Jack -- a gifted artist -- to sketch a picture of her, nude and wearing the Heart of the Ocean. After narrowly escaping from Caledon's bodyguard, Lovejoy, she and Jack took refuge in the baggage area deep within Titanic, where they made love in the back of an automobile stored there. (A deleted scene from the film strongly suggests she was a virgin though this is only indicated by Caledon so may not actually be true.)

Soon after, Titanic hit an iceberg and started to sink. The second half of the movie is crucial to Rose's character: It shows her standing up to her mother and her fiance Caledon Hockley, and risking all to save Jack from the icy bowels of the ship (Jack having been left to die belowdecks). After the ship finally went under, she and Jack clung onto driftwood for hours before finally, Jack died of the cold. Heartbroken, she blew a whistle she found in the water for help, and a lifeboat came back for her. Believed dead by her family, she adopts the name Rose Dawson.

She lived the rest of her life doing the things that Jack and herself talked about doing, like riding horses in Santa Monica, California and becoming a movie actress. Eventually, she married and moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa and started a family.

In 1996, when she was 101 and living with her granddaughter, the portrait Jack sketched of her was discovered in the wreck of the Titanic. After contacting the recovery crew, she was invited to go out to the scene, where a search has been underway for the Heart of the Ocean. Rose tells them her story of having survived the wreck. That night, she walks to the back of the salvage ship and removes the Heart of the Ocean from her pocket. Although long since thought to have gone down with the ship, Rose had actually carried it with her off the ship -- not realizing this until she arrived in New York City. She throws the diamond into the water, returning it to its proper resting place. (An alternate version of this scene was shot in which the head of the salvage team tries to convince her not to throw the diamond overboard, but ultimately she does anyway. This version is included on the 2005 DVD release.)

Later, she is seen lying peacefully in her bed. Images appear of Rose, young again, back on the Titanic. Doors are opened for her as she enters the Grand Staircase, and she walks up the stairs. Jack is waiting, and turns and takes her hand. They kiss and the passengers applaud heartily. The film intentionally leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a dream, or if Rose has passed away.

CALEDON HOCKLEY

Caledon Hockley is the fictional villain of James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic. He was played by American actor Billy Zane. His characterization is very similar to the Gaston character from Disney's 1991 film, Beauty and the Beast.

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An American steel tycoon in 1912, Caledon (or Cal) Hockley was on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic from Southampton, England, to New York City in order to marry his 17-year-old fiancée, Rose DeWitt Bukater. Rose did not want the marriage and despised Hockley, but the man either was oblivious to this or chose to ignore it. In order to seal his relationship with Rose, he purchased a rare diamond once owned by Louis XVI called the Heart of the Ocean and presented it to her.

Caledon was not aware that Rose was driven to consider suicide during the voyage and that she was saved only by the intervention of a friendly young man, Jack Dawson, with whom she fell in love. Hockley, initially unaware of this, invited Jack to dine with him as thanks for saving Rose's life (as far as he was concerned, she had accidentally fallen off the rail and was rescued by Jack). Hockley's bodyguard, a former Pinkerton's detective named Spicer Lovejoy, was the only one who doubted Rose and Jack's story.

Eventually, Caledon realized that Rose's affections lay with Jack and, even as the Titanic was starting to sink after having struck an iceberg, contrived with Lovejoy to have Jack arrested and locked deep belowdecks. (Jack would later be rescued by Rose.) Later, Hockley and Jack reluctantly joined forces in order to get Rose to leave the sinking ship, but she defied both of them and jumped back on board.

Caledon escaped the disaster unharmed, sneaking aboard a lifeboat while pretending to take care of a young child, but Lovejoy perished when the Titanic split in two. Although Hockley tried to find Rose afterwards, he was unsuccessful and believed that she died in the sinking. (In reality, he passed within a few feet of her, but Rose chose not to reveal her presence). Later, Hockley married someone else and inherited his family's millions. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 ruined him and he committed suicide by shooting himself.

The 2005 DVD release of the film added a couple of tidbits about the character. He was of the impression that Rose was a virgin, and in a scene cut from later in the film, he ordered Lovejoy to kill both Jack and Rose in exchange for the Heart of the Ocean diamond. Lovejoy called his master a "bastard" for doing this, but goes along with it, though he was unable to defeat Jack in the fight that followed.

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Jack Dawson
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Jack Dawson is the fictional hero of James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic. He was played by American actor Leonardo DiCaprio.



According to the script, Dawson was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1893. When he was 15, his parents died and he started to travel the world by himself. His travels took him to many places, like Los Angeles and Paris. He was an artist who drew sketches for money; one of his favorite models was a one-legged French prostitute whom he drew nude. For unknown reasons, on April 10, 1912, he and his friend Fabrizio De Rossi were in Southampton, England. It just so happened that the RMS Titanic was leaving that morning. He and Fabrizio won two tickets in a poker game, and they managed to get on shortly before the Titanic left. It was on this tremendous ship that he met the wealthy beauty Rose DeWitt Bukater, who was engaged to Caledon Hockley, an arrogant steel magnate. Rose and Jack fell in love after Jack stopped Rose from committing suicide. Out of gratitude, Jack was invited to dinner in the first class dining saloon by Cal and Rose's mother, Ruth; Margaret Brown, a companion at Rose's table, loaned Jack her son's evening clothes for the event. After dinner, Rose and Jack slipped away to the third-class general room where an Irish band was playing for the night. After having been introduced to Jack's world, it was implied that she liked being in his better than she did being in hers.

The next morning, however, Jack was forbidden to see Rose or return to the first-class section of the ship. He managed, however, to steal the overcoat and hat of real-life passenger Arthur Ryerson in order to pass as a first-class passenger and confront Rose. Though she refused to have anything to do with him anymore out of obligation to her mother and Cal, she later reunited with him on the prow of the ship. Rose took Jack back to her stateroom, presented him with the Heart of the Ocean diamond pendant that Cal had given her as a present, and asked him to draw her wearing the diamond — and nothing else. Jack did so, and Rose put the finished portrait in the stateroom's safe. As they left, they encountered Hockley's bodyguard, Spicer Lovejoy, and fled down to the boiler room to evade him. As they were chased through the bowels of the ship by stokers and other crewmembers, they eventually found their way to a cargo hold where a Renault car was being stowed. They spontaneously consummated their relationship in the backseat and fled up to the forecastle of the ship after they heard two porters approaching.

Soon afterward, the Titanic hit a large iceberg in the North Atlantic, and the ship began to sink. Rose and Jack witnessed the collision and ran back to Rose's stateroom to warn her family. As they met Hockley and Lovejoy, Hockley framed Jack for the "theft" of the Heart of the Ocean by secretly putting it in Jack's pilfered coat, and he was taken away to the ship's brig on E Deck by Lovejoy. The ship, meanwhile, was sinking fast; Lovejoy eventually handcuffed Jack to a pipe and left him to drown as the brig started to flood. Rose, however, refused to believe that Jack was guilty of stealing the diamond and managed to free him from the brig just as it began to overflow. After overcoming several locked gates and other obstacles in an attempt to get to the Boat Deck, Jack and Rose reunited with Hockley. Dawson and Hockley tried to get Rose to leave the ship aboard a lifeboat, but Rose jumped back on board and reunited with Jack. They were once again chased into the bowels of the ship by an enraged Hockley wielding Lovejoy's revolver, but managed to get topside once again.

After the ship sank, Rose and Jack clung onto a piece of driftwood for many hours; there was only enough room on the wood for Rose, so Jack kept most of his body immersed in the freezing water until the cold of the air and the water finally killed him.

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Jack Dawson vs J. Dawson
The gravestone carrying number 227 at Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia bears the date of the sinking and the inscription of a name: "J. Dawson." Since the film came out in 1997, this grave has frequently been mistaken for the grave of Jack Dawson, Leonardo DiCaprio's character who never existed. James Cameron, the film's director, claimed he didn't know there was a "J. Dawson" on board when he named the character. The "J." stands in fact for "Joseph", who was a crewmember on Titanic's maiden voyage. Nevetheless, the grave has since then been visited by thousands of fans, leaving flowers, candles, cards, pictures and even hotel keys.

The 2005 DVD release of the film includes a tribute video-cum-gag reel produced for the crew of the film. An image of the real Dawson's gravestone is included in the video, suggesting the coincidence was known to the production crew.

Margaret Brown
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Margaret (Molly) BrownMargaret Tobin Brown (July 18, 1867 - October 26, 1932), also known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," (although she was never known as "Molly" in her lifetime) was an American socialite, philanthropist and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

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1 Humble beginnings
2 RMS Titanic survivor
3 Later fame
4 See also
5 Further reading
6 External links



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Humble beginnings
Margaret was born in Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children of Irish immigrants. At 18, she moved to Leadville, Colorado, with her sister, obtaining a job in a department store. It was here she met and married James Joseph Brown (J.J.) in 1886. It was also in Leadville that she first became involved in women's rights, helping to establish the Colorado chapter of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, and worked in soup kitchens to assist miners' families. The family came into great wealth when J.J's engineering efforts proved instrumental in the production of a substantial gold and copper seam at the Little Jonny [sic] mine of his employers, Ibex, and he was awarded 12,500 shares of stock and a seat on the board.

In 1894 they moved to Denver, Colorado, which gave the family more social opportunities and Margaret became a charter member of the Denver Woman's Club, whose mission was the improvement of women's lives through continuing education and philanthropy. In 1901 she was one of the first students to enroll at the Carnegie Institute in New York. Adjusting to the trappings of a society lady, she became well-immersed in the arts and fluent in French, German and Russian. In 1909 and 1914 she ran for Congress, and she also assisted in the fundraising for Denver's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception that was completed in 1912. Margaret also worked with Judge Ben Lindsey to help destitute children and establish the United States' first juvenile court which helped form the basis of the modern U.S. juvenile courts system. Her lifelong career as a human and labor rights advocate earned her prominence in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado in 1914.

In 1909, Margaret and J.J. privately separated, but remained close until his death in 1922.

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RMS Titanic survivor
Margaret was on a European tour with her daughter Helen when she learned that her first grandson, Lawrence, was ill. She immediately booked first class passage back to the U.S. on the first ship that was available, the Titanic. When the ship collided with the iceberg and began to sink, she helped many others to lifeboats before being forced into one herself. Once in the water, she and the other women in the lifeboat worked together to row and keep spirits up, despite the alleged panic and gloom of Quartermaster Robert Hichens.

When the RMS Carpathia arrived to rescue the survivors, Margaret assisted with the rescue efforts; her proficiency in languages an asset, she helped prepare survivor lists for outside communication and raised funds with other rich survivors to help those less fortunate among surviving passengers and crew, collecting $10,000 by the time the ship made port in New York City. For her calm action in the disaster, the media acclaimed her as one of the heroines of the hour. She was quoted as saying that her survival was attributable to "typical Brown luck...we're unsinkable". She became known as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown for the rest of her life.

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Later fame
She went on to head the Titanic Survivors' Committee, participated in fundraising for victims of the sinking and helped to get a memorial to the Titanic erected in Washington, D.C. Margaret also published her account of the sinking in newspapers.

Her fame helped her promote the issues she felt deeply about - the rights of workers and women, education and literacy for children, and historic preservation. During World War I in France she worked with the American Committee for Devastated France to rebuild areas behind the front line, and helped wounded French and American soldiers. Shortly before her death in 1932 from a brain tumor, she was awarded the French Legion of Honour for her "overall good citizenship" including her relief work in France, her efforts for Titanic survivors and her other activism and philanthropy at home in America.

A Broadway musical and film, The Unsinkable Molly Brown were based on fictionalized accounts of her life published in newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, where the moniker Molly was acquired. Kathy Bates played the character of Margaret Brown in the 1997 film Titanic.

The Gemini 3 spacecraft was named Molly Brown by commander Gus Grissom in reference to his previous spaceflight on Liberty Bell 7 which ended with the Mercury spacecraft sinking during recovery in the Atlantic.

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See also
Molly Brown House the museum of her home in Denver.
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Further reading
Kristen Iversen and Muffet Brown: Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth Johnson Books, 1999 ISBN 1555662374.
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External links
List of passengers and crew of RMS Titanic
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these info is really interesting...

i'm reading right now...






Molly Brown is really cool

Molly brown was a really nice person, not like ruth(rose's mother in titanic)....she really cares about poor people..she must be in heaven now.

yup... that's the place where she belongs now...


she is a very very admirable person... lol

wish i could be like her...

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She cared about people in general.

I think everyone on the ship should be admired

many of the ppl on titanic were probably as kind as polite as her but did not survive to this day.