It’s a chilling scene: an older man and woman hold each other in bed, silently watching the icy oceans flood into their cabin, rising up all around them. He clings to her hand and gently kisses her on the cheek. They await their heartbreaking fate.
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While James Cameron took some artistic license with this moment in his Oscar-winning film Titanic, the ill-fated lovers from the movie are actually based on two very real people: Isidor Straus, 67, and his wife Ida Strauss, 63. The couple owned Macy’s –the famous department store Macy’s – and were two of the richest passengers aboard the “unsinkable” ship. As Cameron depicted them, they were very in love.