Titanic Survivor Molly Brown
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Titanic Survivor Molly Brown
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Kathy Pinna
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AncientFaces
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02/16/2016
The courageous “Unsinkable Molly Brown” who earned her name during the sinking of the Titanic. While disliked by many first class passengers because of her "new money” status, she helped in the ship’s evacuation and once she eventually evacuated urged the lifeboat to return for survivors. Only two out of sixteen lifeboats ever went back to pick up survivors.
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The resemblance to Kathy Bates is crazy. 😲
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That's who played this character in the TV movie, it came out before the Leo DiCaprio movie
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That's what I thought too! I wonder if she is related?
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Yes!!! I thought exactly the same thing. That's pretty eerie!
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I don't see any resemblance to Kathy Bates at all! Ha! Just goes to show that 6 people can see the same thing differently!
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I like Kathy Bates' portrayal of Molly Brown. Feisty lady who could hold her own amongst those (obnoxious 'posh') she shared a deck with on Titanic.
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I hated what they did in the movie!! Telling her to sit down in the lifeboat! Ha! That never happened!!!
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Melanie Clark That's what I was thinking! Nothing like Debbie. More like a prospector's wife.
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They tried in casting to get actors that looked as close as possible to their real life characters.
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Isn't it, though. They picked a good actress to play Molly Brown.
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A wonderful book to read is Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen. It was an excellent read!
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Thank you for the recommendation. I love biographies, particularly about strong American women.
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They made a movie about her, I'm unsure if the name, but remember watching it with my mum. 1950's or 60's.
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It was called "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and starred Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell.
Janet Madison
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02/16/2016
The ppl on the other lifeboats were probably afraid the survivors would swamp the boat.
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True for those of you who are not from here the Molly Brown House & Museum is absolutely incredible. When you walk through you can really feel her presence. We try to go once a year just because it's so neat and historically everything is amazing.
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You can tour the Molly Brown house in Denver. The movie and play that were made were grossly inaccurate. Margaret Brown did so much for miners , children's education and health. She was truly a woman whose heart was with the poor. She made many contributions to education, arts.
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My Grandmother was a young girl who along with her family were supposed to come to America on the Titanic. However, for some reason they were not able to leave that day so they came on a ship the next day. God leads in many ways.
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Jacqueline and Bethany, it's out of print but through a library you should be able to find a copy of a book I read about ten years ago. It's fascinating and despite the title the author is not a sensationalist and is more ready to exclude possibilities than not. But what he found is eerie: "Titanic - Psychic Forewarnings of a Tragedy" by George Behe.
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My husband's grandfather had planned to be on the Titanic also, and changed his mind. He came a few weeks later with his young nephew. We think that young nephew probably begged his uncle to wait, ...just a couple weeks. Obviously it saved their lives.
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Her house in Denver is pretty amazing too :)
Thomas Collens
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02/17/2016
She was a woman ahead of her time. Didn't take any guff. Very admirable person!
Jeanet Groenink
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02/23/2016
Debby Reynolds really did a good job, in the movie! I can "see her" looking at the picture of Molly Brown!
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Margaret (Tobin) Brown was born on July 18, 1867 in Hannibal, Comté de Marion County, MO États-Unis to Johanna (Collins) Tobin and John Tobin, and had siblings Daniel Collins Tobin, Michael Tobin, Helen Tobin, and William Tobin. She married James Joseph Brown on September 1, 1886, and they were married until James' death on September 5, 1922. She had children Lawrence Palmer Brown and Catherine Ellen (Brown) Benziger. Margaret Brown died at age 65 years old on October 26, 1932 in New York, comté de New York County, NY, and was buried at Cemetery of the Holy Rood 111 Old Country Rd, in Westbury, Nassau County.
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I'm a Founder of AncientFaces and support the community answering questions & helping members make connections to the past (thus my official title of Founder & Content and Community Director). For me, it's been a labor of love for over 20 years. I truly believe with all of my heart that everyone should be remembered for generations to come. I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in Campbell (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our current Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director
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