r/MovieDetails - The elderly couple embracing one another in Titanic (1997) - were Isidor & Ida Straus, the founder of Macys Dept Stores and his wife. Ida gave her lifeboat seat to their maid and both chose to go down with the ship if it meant staying together and making lifeboat room for women and children.
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