As happens in real life when tragedies happen true feelings often surface – sometimes too late though as is the case here. Just as the differences between Julia and Richard seem insurmountable it becomes clear that what they face as a couple pales in comparison with the reality that all aboard the Titanic are faced with. The drama of the Sturges family is fictional, but wonderfully written and executed.
The Sturges family – Norman, Julia, Annette and Richard Sturges books passage without her husband’s knowledge, but he finds out and boards the Titanic just as it’s about to set sail so that he can stop her and keep his children in Europe. Her husband, however, is of that other world and therefore the root of the problem. Her wish is that they grow up to be people of substance. Sturges books passage on the Titanic to take her children, Annette and Norman (played by Audrey Dalton and Harper Carter respectively) back to Michigan in hopes that they can have a normal life without excessive privilege. In other words both Stanwyck and Webb play to their strengths.Īs this story goes Mrs. What’s interesting about the characterization of Stanwyck’s character is that they make it a point to emphasize how she’s from the wrong side of the tracks – Michigan – or at least as compared to his high-brow pedigree. In Titanic Barbara Stanwyck plays Julia the American wife of Richard Ward Sturges, an upper crust British man played superbly by Clifton Webb, another major star at the time. She was one of the biggest stars in the world. She was generous, warm and kind to everyone. The behind-the-scenes stories that have emerged from the making of Jean Negulesco’s Titanic (1953) are nothing new.
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