Titanic is an iconic film and re-telling of the real-life harrowing tragedy that happened to the RMS Titanic in 1912. While Jack and Rose weren’t based on any of the real people, many minor characters were. Unfortunately, many of their stories were cut out and remain as deleted scenes. Directed by big-budget Hollywood giant James Cameron, this was one of his crowning achievements that helped pave the road to Avatar and more.
This historical fiction film merges disaster and romance in the best way possible. It tells the love story of Jack and Rose, who meet on the same ship but hail from different social classes. They also interact with many other characters from various social classes as well. Here are all the true passenger stories beyond Rose and Jack that were cut from the movie, but deserve to be honored.
Isidor & Ida Straus
Amongst the deleted scenes in Titanic is a sequence that shows the passengers who couldn’t make it to the boat. The heartbreaking scene depicts them accepting their fates. Of those passengers were an elderly couple holding each other in bed as their room starts to flood with water. The couple was actually the owners of Macy’s.
They were offered a place in the lifeboat, but the husband refused to board while there were still women who needed saving, and Ida wouldn’t leave her hubby’s side. In a deleted scene, he tries to get her to go, and she proclaims that they’ve been together for 40 years, and according to witnesses, said the words, “where you go, I go.”