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Titanic Overview:

Titanic (1953) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Charles Brackett.

Academy Awards 1953 --- Ceremony Number 26 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Stuart ReissNominated
Best WritingCharles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard BreenWon
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Titanic BlogHub Articles:

Titanic ( 1953 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 15, 2022 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

On April 15th, 1912, in the early morning hours, the luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the waters of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers perished in one of the worst ocean disasters in history. Today marks the 110th anniversary of this tragic event, and so we'll be rev... Read full article

TITANIC (1953)

By Terry on Mar 7, 2019 From Stardust and Shadows

James Cameron’s mega budget picture aside, the sinking of the  Titanic, first and foremost, is a human story. The sinking of the unsinkable has been filmed many times,  beginning in silent film to the definitive British production A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958).   Director Jean Negulesco&#8217... Read full article

Classic Movie Travels: Nova Scotia, Canada – The King and I, and Titanic

By Annmarie Gatti on Apr 15, 2017 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Classic Movie Travel Sites in Halifax, Nova Scotia I had the pleasure of visiting Nova Scotia over the summer, and as any true-blue Classic Movie Fan would do, I just had to find some classic-movie-related sites to make my trip complete! That said, I’d like to share some photos and a youtube c... Read full article

Titanic

By Michael on Feb 10, 2016 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. With a budget of over 200 millions of dollars, this epic romance disaster movie is one of the most iconic film of the 1990’s for being t... Read full article

Titanic (1953)

By Beatrice on Oct 20, 2015 From Flickers in Time

Titanic Directed by Jean Negulesco Written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Ricard L. Breen 1953/USA Twentieth Century Fox First viewing/Netflix Rental Julia Sturges: Be brave Annette. These tragedies happen sometimes in life. What’s a film about the Titanic disaster without a litt... Read full article

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Titanic Quotes:

Earl Meeker: Hey, you can't come up here. This is reserved for first class only.
Richard Sturges: Really. I'll do my best to behave properly.
Richard Sturges: [after Richard and Julia have been quarreling over who will have custody of their son] May dear Julia, I've been around enough bridge tables to recognize someone who's holding a high trump - play it now if you will.
Julia Sturges: We'll discuss it later.
Richard Sturges: Now!
Julia Sturges: All right, Richard. One question first?
Richard Sturges: If it's about Norman, you know the answer. No court in the world, no power in the heavens can force me to give up my son.
Julia Sturges: He is not your son.
Maude Young: I've seen that look before. He's a runaway.
Earl Meeker: From what, some woman?
Maude: No, he's running too fast for that.
Julia Sturges: [after losing the argument with Richard, when their daughter decides not to stay with her mother in Michigan but to return to Europe with her father on the next boat] Thank you, Richard. You were most helpful. Now you see why I wanted to steal a little more time.
Richard Sturges: Please, Julia. Let's not bicker, since there's no love lost between us.
Julia Sturges: That's the tragic part, Richard. There's been so much love lost between us.
Maude Young: Where I come from this is either a revival meeting or a crap game.
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Titanic Facts
To ensure authenticity, the producers recruited a former captain of the Queen Elizabeth as a technical consultant, and no background music was played during the feature film-the only music heard was that of the musicians aboard the ship.
The poem that Julia recites to Gifford is "When I Aas One-and-Twenty", number XIII by A.E. Housman from his book A Shropshire Lad.
Working titles for this film were "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Passenger List."
The character of Maude Young, portrayed in this motion picture by Thelma Ritter, was obviously based upon Mrs. J.J. "Unsinkable Molly" Brown of Denver, Colorado. Even though the actual names of some of the other passengers were used in the film, Mrs. Brown's was not. It has been suggested that there was some dispute between 20th Century Fox and the Brown estate over the use of Molly Brown's character. Therefore, Molly Brown of the Denver, Colorado gold silver mining fortune became, for this motion picture, Maude Young of Montana lead mining.
Some of the original Titanic survivors were invited to a tear-filled special screening of the film in New York.
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