The scene where an elderly couple are hugging on the bed while water rushes underneath depicts owners of Macy’s department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss. They died on the Titanic in real life. Ida was offered a seat on a lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband saying, “As we have lived together, so we shall die together.” 

The scene where an elderly couple are hugging on the bed while water rushes underneath depicts owners of Macy’s department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss. They died on the Titanic in real life. Ida was offered a seat on a lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband saying, “As we have lived together, so we shall die together.” 

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