A quote from one of my favorite Titanic historians, Gareth Russell, on J. Bruce Ismay and his unfair character assassination in media and history:

"If you're going to turn the Titanic into a morality lesson, you have to have villains. It can't be the dead because that's 'not a good show,' as they would say in the Edwardian period. It can't be the Captain's fault it was going too fast because he's dead. So it's Ismay's, because he had the bad manners to live."

GTKTM: FAVORITE TV SHOW/FILM PER MEMBER ↳ Titanic — by Pfeiffer (@melina-vostokova)

When you got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

GET TO KNOW ME: ♡ [8/25] films: ☆ Titanic (1997) [Dir. by James Cameron]

 I feel I'm standing in the middle of a crowded room screaming at the top of my lungs and no one even looks up.

TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

Early 1910s Hairstyles

Gerda Ring (1910-1915) via the Olso Museum // Gertrude Vanderbilt, American art collector and sculptor (1910) via wikipedia // Princess Patricia of Connaught (1912) via npg.org.uk // Anne Johnson of St. Louis (1913) via wikipedia // Hazel Dawn, American actress (1913) via David Shields on pinterest // Ruth Findlay, American actress (1914) via wikipedia

TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

“What I was thinking was, what could have happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?” “It was everything. It was my whole world and all the people in it. And the inertia of my life, plunging ahead and me powerless to stop it.”

TITANIC 1997, dir. James Cameron

some of the dresses worn by Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997) directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

-Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes. Not yet, do you understand me? -I'm so cold. -Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old… an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me? -I can't feel my body. -Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.

Titanic (1953) Dir. Jean Negulesco

bathtubs in film

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.

Where to, Miss? To the stars. TITANIC 1997 • dir. James Cameron