Titanic (1953 movie)

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Titanic

Titanic film poster
Directed byJean Negulesco
Produced byCharles Brackett
Written byCharles Brackett
Richard L. Breen
Walter Reisch
StarringClifton Webb
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Wagner
Audrey Dalton
Thelma Ritter
Music bySol Kaplan
CinematographyJoseph MacDonald
Editing byLouis R. Loeffler
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date(s)April 16, 1953
Running time98 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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Titanic is a 1953 drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is not to be confused with the other movies with the same title. Its plot, like in the 1997 movie, is centered around the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912.

Tagline: TITANIC in Emotion...in Spectacle...in Climax...in Cast!

Plot summary

Richard Ward and Julia Sturges, an estranged couple are traveling in First Class on the RMS Titanic. Determined to remove her children from Richard's "high society" world, Julia secretly takes their two children: seventeen-year-old Annette and ten-year-old Norman on the Titanic and plans to raise them in her hometown of Mackinac, Michigan. However, after he learns of her plans, Richard buys a steerage ticket aboard the vessel in hopes of reconciling with his family. Richard and Julia have a heated confrontation about the ultimate custody of their children.

While Julia realizes that Annette is mature enough to make her own decisions, and therefore, her own way in the world, she realizes that Norman is still a boy and insists on maintaining custody of him. This angers Richard and later, prior to dining at the captain's table, he aggressively confronts Julia. She then reveals to him that Norman is not his biological child, but rather the result of a one-night stand she had after leaving a party where she was being belittled in the days before Richard had 'made [her] over into [his] image.' He agrees to relinquish custody of Norman (but promises to take care of him and Julia financially), being cold and distant to him from this point on until the ship strikes the iceberg.

Richard and Julia have a tearful reconciliation on the boat deck as he is putting Julia and the children in a lifeboat. Later, Norman, concerned about his father's whereabouts, gives up his seat in a lifeboat so that he can find him. They reunite as the Titanic is in her final moments. Richard tells a passing steward that Norman is his 'son' and then tells the boy that he has been proud of him every day of his life and that he feels 'tall as a mountain' standing by the boy's side. Then they join the rest of the passengers and crew in singing the hymn "Nearer, my God, to Thee" before the ship explodes several times, rises into the air and sinks.

Also aboard is a twenty-year-old Purdue tennis player Gifford Rogers, who falls for Annette, and suspended priest George S. Healey who has become an alcoholic.

Reception

The film was a hit and it touched and terrified moviegoers around the world. It also helped spawn new interest in the Titanic sinking which increased phenomenally with the 1955 release of Walter Lord's bestselling nonfiction account of the disaster, A Night to Remember.

Real Titanic passengers and crew who were portrayed in the film, or referenced in the script, included Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, Madeleine Astor, Isidor and Ida Straus, Captain Edward J. Smith, Second Officer Charles Lightoller and Benjamin Guggenheim. Thelma Ritter plays Maude Young, a character much like Molly Brown.

Awards and nominations

The film won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, and was nominated for the Award for BestArt Direction - Set Decoration. It was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award.

Main cast

Actor Role
Clifton WebbRichard Ward Sturges
Barbara StanwyckJulia Sturges
Robert WagnerGifford Rogers
Audrey DaltonAnnette Sturges
Thelma RitterMaude Young
Brian AherneCaptain Edward J. Smith
Richard BasehartGeorge S. Healey
Allyn JoslynEarl Meeker

External links

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RMS Titanic in film
Saved from the Titanic (1912) • In Nacht und Eis (1912) • Atlantic (1929) • Titanic (1943) • Titanic (1953) • A Night to Remember (1958) • S.O.S. Titanic (1979) • Raise the Titanic! (1980) • Titanic (1996) • Titanic (1997) • Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Jean Negulesco

Born February 26, 1900
Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Died July 18, 1993
Marbella, Andalusia, Spain

Spouse(s) Dusty Anderson (1946-1993)

Awards
Academy Awards
Nominated: Best Director
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Charles Brackett (November 26, 1892-March 9, 1969) was an accomplished writer, movie screenwriter and movie producer. Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator (Edgar Truman Brackett).
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Richard L. Breen (b. Chicago, Illinois, June 26,1918 - d. Los Angeles County, California, February 1, 1967) was a Hollywood screenwriter and director. He began as a freelance radio writer.
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Clifton Webb

from the trailer for the film Laura (1945).
Birth name Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck
Born November 11 1889(1889--)
Beech Grove, Indiana, USA
Died
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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck in Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Birth name Ruby Catherine Stevens
Born July 16 1907(1907--)
New York City, New York, U.S.
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Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner in 1967
Birth name Robert John Wagner
Born January 10 1930 (1930--) (age 77)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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Audrey Dalton (born 21 January, 1934 in Dublin, Irish Free State) is an Irish television and film actress.

Dublin-born Audrey Dalton knew right from childhood that she wanted to be an actress: She appeared in school plays and (after the family's move to London) attended the
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Thelma Ritter

from the trailer for The Mating Season (1951)

Born February 14, 1902
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died January 5 1969 (aged 68)
New York, United States

Years active 1947 - 1968

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Sol Kaplan (April 9, 1919 – November 14, 1990) was a prolific film and television music composer.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kaplan worked as a successful concert pianist, including performing at Carnegie Hall.
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Louis R. Loeffler (February 24, 1897–April 22, 1972) was an American Academy Award-nominated film editor. Through his five decade career, he worked on over one hundred films, including including In Old Arizona (1928), Laura (1944),
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Subsidiary of News Corporation
Founded 1935, Fox Films founded in 1915
Headquarters Century City, California, USA

Industry Motion picture
Parent Fox Filmed Entertainment (News Corporation)
Website foxmovies.
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April 16 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956

Year 1953 (MCMLIII
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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English}}} 
Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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-1953- 1954 1955 1956  1957 .  1958 .  1959 .  1960  . 1961  . 1962  . 1963 

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A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. In a good drama film, the audience is able to experience what other characters are feeling and identify with someone.
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Jean Negulesco

Born February 26, 1900
Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Died July 18, 1993
Marbella, Andalusia, Spain

Spouse(s) Dusty Anderson (1946-1993)

Awards
Academy Awards
Nominated: Best Director
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Many films have been made about the RMS Titanic:
  • In Nacht und Eis, a 1912 German film -the earliest ever film coverage of the Titanic.
  • Saved from the Titanic, a 1912 film starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson.

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RMS Titanic, a British Olympic-class ocean liner, became famous as the largest ocean liner built in her day and also for sinking on her maiden voyage in 1912 with a huge loss of life.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1880s  1890s  1900s  - 1910s -  1920s  1930s  1940s
1909 1910 1911 - 1912 - 1913 1914 1915

Year 1912 (MCMXII
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RMS Titanic, a British Olympic-class ocean liner, became famous as the largest ocean liner built in her day and also for sinking on her maiden voyage in 1912 with a huge loss of life.
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"Nearer, my God, to Thee" is a 19th century Christian hymn based loosely on Genesis 28:11-19, [1] the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11-12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set.
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A Night to Remember

Author Walter Lord
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) History
Publisher R & W Holt
Publication date December 1955
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 260 p.
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John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912.
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Madeleine Talmage Force Astor (June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940) was born in Brooklyn, New York City and became famous in 1911 when she married millionaire John Jacob Astor IV.
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Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912)—also known as Isadore Strauss—, a German Jewish American, was co-owner of the Macy's department store and served as a Member of Congress in the United States.
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Ida Straus, née Rosalie Ida Blun (February 6, 1849 - April 15, 1912) was an American homemaker and wife of the co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband Isidor died on board the RMS Titanic.
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For other people named Edward Smith, see Edward Smith (disambiguation).


Captain Edward John Smith, RD , RNR (January 27, 1850 – April 15, 1912) was the captain of the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912.
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Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC & Bar RD RNR (30 March 1874 – December 8 1952) was the second officer on board the Titanic, and the most senior officer to survive the disaster.
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