Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, and starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck.

He discovers she is trying to take their two unsuspecting children, 18-year-old Annette (Audrey Dalton) and 13-year-old Norman (Harper Carter), to her hometown of Mackinac Island, Michigan, to rear them as down-to-Earth Americans rather than rootless elitists like Richard himself.

As the ship is prepared for departure, Sanderson (Anthony Eustrel), the company representative (based on Bruce Ismay) suggests to Captain Edward J. Smith (Brian Aherne) that a record-setting speedy passage would be welcomed.

Other passengers include Maude Young (based on real-life Titanic survivor Margaret Brown), a wealthy woman of a working class origin (Thelma Ritter); social-climbing Earl Meeker (Allyn Joslyn); a 20-year-old Purdue University tennis player named Gifford "Giff" Rogers (Robert Wagner); and George Healey (Richard Basehart), a Catholic priest who has been defrocked for alcoholism.

That night, Giff, Annette, and a group of young people sing and play the piano in the dining room, while Captain Smith watches from a corner table.

When Richard finds Captain Smith, he insists on being told the truth: the ship is doomed and there are not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board.

At the other end of the spectrum of courage and unselfishness, George Healey heads down into one of the boiler rooms to comfort injured crewmen.

As the last boiler explodes, the Titanic's bow plunges, pivoting her stern high into the air while she rapidly slides into the icy water.

Use all the young people we have on the lot, like Audrey Dalton and Robert Wagner..."[4] Reisch says he came up with the Titanic idea and pitched Clifton Webb as one of the 25 multi-millionaires who died on it.

[7] In a September 1952 news article, it was reported that Terry Moore was set to play the role of Annette Sturges, on condition that she would finish production of Man on a Tightrope on time.

[9] Variety reviewed the film positively stating, "but by the time the initial 45 or 50 minutes are out of the way, the impending disaster begins to take a firm grip on the imagination and builds a compelling expectancy".

In addition, Captain Smith was not awake at the time of the collision with the iceberg, as shown in the film, but was awakened immediately thereafter and summoned to the bridge.

Titanic historians Fitch, Layton, and Wormstedt judge that the film has some impressive special effects and, in some ways, recreates the feeling of being on board the ship.