Submitted by PresLyndonBJohnson36 t3_1266gzf in todayilearned
Not quite, although your overall point is correct :) The only real evidence we have of her personal drama is all press, and it’s not really great source material :)
1912 society loved melodrama, and the frenzy and demand for Titanic material started to turn violent. It’s just good press for your film if you can promote an actual survivor, in actual clothes, and on top of that paint her as a tortured yet heroic figure bravely fighting her trauma for you… the viewer. This was a society obsessed with heroics. The reports of her bravery were all carefully constructed in press releases from her studio.
As for ‘ruined’ … I wouldn’t say so. The film was an international hit, with a only a few editorials grumbling about taste. Dorothy’s stepping away from film seemed to be more a choice than a failure. Her very scandalous public affair and case of manslaughter did much more to derail her than a hit movie, but she did switch to theatre and opera between the two.
Whatever happened, we don’t know, but like you said - after that film she went from being a huge movie star to …. not. There are multiple possibilities why, but our sources are all tabloid and come with the purchase of a salt mine :) the film itself though was very popular.
She went on to live, well… quite a wild life :)
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It feels like you were scolded by Sir David Attenborough for saying something slightly off about animals 😁
Absolutely no scolding here :) Titanic history is complex and bogged down by tabloid and pop-history. The gist was correct, just debatable :)
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lol this could’ve been written today and still rings true. Very little changes I suppose
Human's love watching a train-wreck as well as being told how to feel about it.
> 1912 society loved melodrama
Ah, yes. Way back when people gobbled up fake news...
Wonder if she brought up how Rose had more than enough room to let Jack on the floating door but chose to let him die. I mean after all that y’all had been through. Anyway hit it Celine
Watch Titanic in widescreen, Jack gets on the door but it sinks, he was too heavy.
What is weight
Baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more
Whoa whoa - James Cameron paid for a study to definitively prove that there was not room for Jack on that door.
Even when mythbusters had already done all the work years ago? Sounds about right
Fun Fact!
While ‘Saved from the Titanic’ gets all the press, it was just one of three Titanic films made in 1912. The other two still survive and are on YouTube!
Now, Titanic is sort of shoehorned in to ‘La Hantise’, but (IMO) what’s most interesting about it is, due to the very limited special effects, it accidentally does a decent job portraying the sinking… all things considered of course :)
Sadly a lost film.
Iceberg dead ahead!!
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Viperbunny t1_je7zocx wrote
She did it because she wanted people to understand what they had gone through and wanted the survivors to have some way to tell their story. Instead, people labeled her a money grabbing opportunitist and it destroyed her career.