Titanic (1953)


Titanic
Release Date11 April 1953
TaglineTITANIC in Emotion...in Spectacle...in Climax...in Cast!
GenreAction, Drama, Romance
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassDisaster Film, Melodrama
Niche GenreHistorical Film
ThemesShip Cruises, Class Differences, Fathers and Sons, Crumbling Marriages
TonesAtmospheric, Talky, Lavish, Sweeping, Elegiac
TagsBoat, Captain [military], Chief, Child, Conflict, Course [path], Cruise, Danger, Daughter, Death, Disaster, Disguise, Divorce, Doom, Drowning, Earth, Elderly, Engine, Family, Fate, Father, Final Days, Help, Iceberg, Ill Fated, Juvenile, Lifeboat, Love, Luxury, Man, Manager, Mother, Orchestra, Panic, Passenger, Power, Priest, Railroad, Recreation, Salvage, Sea, Sea Disaster, Shipwreck, Sinking, Socialite, Son, Steel, Striker, Student, Survivor, Ticket, Water, Wife, Woman, Young

Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Richard Ward Sturges

Julia Sturges

Gifford "Giff" Rogers

Annette Sturges

Maude Young

Capt. Edward John Smith

George S. Headley

Earl Meeker

James Todd
Sandy Comstock

Madeleine Astor

William Johnstone
John Jacob Astor

Christopher Severn
Flag messenger

James O'Hara
Devlin

Charles B. Fitzsimons
Chief Officer Wilde

Barry Bernard
First Officer Murdock

Guy Standing Jr.
George D. Widener

Helen Van Tuyl
Ida Straus

Roy Gordon
Isador Straus

Marta Mitrovich
Mrs. Jean Uzcadum

Ivis Goulding
Emma

Dennis Frazer
Bride

Ashley Cowan
Phillips

Harper Carter
Norman Sturges

Patrick Aherne
Seaman

College girl

Salvador Baguez
Jean Pablo Uzcadum

Eugene Borden
Bit part

George Boyce
Bit Part

Messenger boy

Donald Chaffin
Steward

Robin Sanders Clark
Bit Part

Boiler room engineer

John Costello
Bit Part

Bit Part

William Cottrell
Harry

Herbert Deans
Bit Part

John Dodsworth
Stoker who exclaims 'For God's sake!'

Anthony Eustrel
Sanderson

Conrad Feia
College boy

Michael Ferris
Steward

Elizabeth Flournoy
Woman with baby

John Fraser
Steward

Gloria Gordon
College girl

Lee Graham
Symons

Ralph Grosh
Steward

Camillo Guercio
Benjamin Guggenheim

Michael Hadlow
Bit Part

College boy

Sam Harris
Passenger

Ivan Hayes
Bit Part

Joan Hayes
Bit Part

David Hoffman
Ship's Tailor

Robin Hughes
Junior officer

Charles Keane
Bit Part

Melinda Markey
College girl

Woman to whom Norman gave his seat

Alan Marston
Quartermaster

Owen McGiveney
Steward

Harold Miller
Passenger

Alberto Morin
Waiter

Joyce Newhard
Bit Part

Patrick O'Moore
Relief man

Richard Peel
Bit Part

Second Officer Lightoller

Narrator

Gordon Richards
Mr. Webster

Duke Seba
Bit Part

Bert Stevens
Passenger

David Thursby
Seaman

Richard West
College boy

Director

Writer

Charles Brackett

Walter Reisch

Richard L. Breen

Producer

Charles Brackett
producer

Original Music

Sol Kaplan
-

Cinematographer

Joseph MacDonald

Editor

Louis R. Loeffler

Art Director

Maurice Ransford
-

Set Decorator

Stuart A. Reiss

Costume Designer

Dorothy Jeakins
-

Makeup Department

makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Henry Weinberger
assistant director

Sound Department

Roger Heman Sr.
sound

Arthur von Kirbach
sound

Special Effects

Ray Kellogg
special photographic effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department

wardrobe director

Sam Benson
wardrobe supervisor

Music Department

musical director

Herbert W. Spencer
orchestrator

Other Crew

Gordon Illingworth
technical advisor

Production Company

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

20th Century Fox

Fox Video

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Miscellaneous

ChapmanLeonard Studio Equipment
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