Dorothy Gibson

Dorothy Gibson, born Dorothy Winifred Brown (Hoboken, 17 may 1889 - Paris, 17 February 1946) was an American actress and model. She is best known as a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Youth Years[ Edit] == Portrait of GibsonGibson was the daughter of John a. and Pauline Brown born in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her father died when she was just three years old and her mother remarried John Leonard Gibson. With the last guy got two children, but both Pauline who died at a young age.
 * 2 RMS Titanic
 * 3 end of a film career
 * 4 personal life
 * 5 the 1940s
 * 6 Influence

In the winter of 1909 met Gibson pharmacist George Henry Battier Jr.. They were married on 10 February 1910, but went in the succeeding summer apart.

Around this time also began her career as an actress and model. It started slow in 1909, when they posed for advertisements only.However, she was soon noticed and posted several times on the cover of magazines.

Yet she already. She was already from 1906 to see on Broadway . Also she sang mostly in the pieces in which she played. They entered the film industry in in 1911, via topagent Pat Casey. Although they began as additional movies in July that year, she got her first leading role in a movie.

She was often seen as a comedian and was praised for her natural acting performances. These characteristics were reflected in the films Miss Masquerader (1911) and Love Finds a Way (1912). Its main role was in the drama film Hands Across the Sea. Her most popular film would only be released in 1912. ==RMS Titanic[ Edit] == After the shooting of the film were sitting out The Easter Bonnet , she went with her mother on holiday in Italy. Yet she was not long free time to be awarded: soon she had to get back to America for the next movie.She went in Cherbourg on board the ship the RMS Titanic, where they recorded a short time before departure ticket.

On the late evening of april 14, 1912, she was not yet fallen asleep. They still played bridge late at night with William t. Sloper and Frederick k. Seward. When she went back to her cabin, she was still not in when the ship hit the iceberg. Gibson went immediately to the deck to see what was going on. When told her was that the ship was going to sink, she went back to the cabin to mother Pauline to pick up.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She sat with her mother in one of the first lifeboats who was going to leave. Sloper and Seward also sat with her in lifeboat 7. She was quite appalled by this incident and blamed the crew. ==End of a film career<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Dorothy Gibson on the film poster of Saved from the Titanic.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since Gibson as enthusiastic actress kept thinking, she made here, a few weeks after the disaster, a film about. And here she got a starring role in the movie is called Saved from the Titanic. The film was a huge success and, moreover, the milestone in Gibson's career. For the film helped them to the scenario and carried in the film clothes they also wore on the ship.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In her time was Gibson compared with film legends such as Mary Pickford. However, she stopped acting in films after 1912 to also achieve a successful career in the choir. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gibson began in 1911 having an affair with the married Jules Brulatour. When Gibson in a sports car produced by Brulatour reed, they accidentally killed a pedestrian. During the trial it became clear that the two had an affair. To Brulatours reputation to keep up, he married Dorothy in 1917.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gibson moved to Paris in order to avoid all the gossip and built a new life there. during the Second World War they stayed in Italy. ==The 1940s<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During World War II, Gibson suspected for being an anti fascist and was put behind bars in San Vittore. They escaped later with Indro Montanelli and General Bartolo Zambon.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1946 Gibson to a heart attack died in Hôtel Ritz in Paris. Her money went to her mother and her last friend; Emilio Antonio Ramos. ==Influence<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gibson's only movie not is lost, is The Lucky Holdup. This film is now in the repository.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Her person was an inspiration to Susan Alexander in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Currently, she is an inspiration for a character in a book that is called General Della Rovere . The book was later made into a film by Director Roberto Rossellini.