Rose is a 17-year-old girl from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagement to 30-year-old Cal Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status after her father's death had left the family debt-ridden. Rose boards Titanic with Cal and Ruth, as a first-class passenger, and meets Jack.
Rose's arrogant and condescending fiancé Caledon Hockley was not a real person aboard the Titanic, but this fictional character was in keeping with the roster of wealthy elites who chartered passage to New York City.
Rose had never had feelings for Cal, but became engaged to him only because of her mother's insistence. After the Titanic sank and Jack died of hypothermia, Cal searched for Rose on the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued any survivors from the Titanic.
Rose and Mr. Calvert had children, though it's unclear how many, and it's only mentioned that she “punched out a couple of kids”. Rose was also a grandmother, though how many grandchildren she had is also unknown.
It gives him pleasure to own and touch things, but this intense physicality also has a dark side -- he isn't above overturning a table in his rage or slapping Rose when he finds out she has posed naked for an artist behind his back.
Rose is a wealthy society woman and a first-class passenger on the Titanic. She is engaged to Cal Hockley, a wealthy and abusive man, but falls in love with Jack during the voyage. Rose ultimately decides to leave her old life behind and start a new one with Jack.
He eventually gives up, and the two never see each other again. James Cameron's original script (via IMDb) reportedly sees Cal finding Rose. When he does, she tells him she doesn't want to be a part of his life. Rose demands that Cal lie to her mother and tell her that Rose died on Titanic.
Rose's father died and left her mother and her with nothing but his debts. Her financially troubled mother Ruth has forced Rose to accept an engagement to Cal, an arrogant wealthy Englishman whom Rose does not love.
In the movie, she was supposed to be 17. Bodine says: "Rose DeWitt Bukater died on the Titanic. At the age of 17. If she'd've lived, she'd be over a hundred now."
Cal, then, survived the sinking of the Titanic and later looked for Rose in the RMS Carpathia but couldn't find her. In the present day, old Rose recalled that the last time she saw Cal was when he was looking for her in the Carpathia, and revealed a couple of details about his life after the Titanic's tragedy.
It is unclear what happened to Ruth after she was rescued by the Carpathia, and how (or if) she managed without Cal's wealth. It can be presumed that by the time her elderly daughter tells her tale in 1996, Ruth has been dead for decades.
Caledon Nathan Hockley (often shortened to Cal, 1882-1929, age 47) is Rose's fiance and the main antagonist of Titanic. He was supposed to have married Rose DeWitt Bukater when they arrived in Philadelphia, yet her hatred for him and her romance with Jack Dawson kept them apart.
Caledon "Cal" Hockley is the main antagonist of the 1997 film Titanic. He is the son of a millionaire steel tycoon who boards the Titanic with his fiancée, Rose DeWitt Bukater, to go to New York and claim his fortune from his father.
Born November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, the eternally-youthful-looking DiCaprio was 23 when "Titanic" was first released in theaters in December 1997. Winslet, on the other hand, was 22 when the film premiered. Her character Rose was 17.
Actress Gloria Stuart, who played an elderly shipwreck survivor in the film Titanic, has died at the age of 100. The blonde actress appeared in several films during the 1930s, before retiring from acting in 1946.
Old Rose : [to Brock, Lizzy, and Brock's staff] It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was.
Rose is a 17-year-old girl from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagement to 30-year-old Cal Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status after her father's death had left the family debt-ridden. Rose boards Titanic with Cal and Ruth, as a first-class passenger, and meets Jack.
The real Rose from Titanic, Beatrice Wood, led a fascinating life that features more than a few similarities to Rose. Like Rose, Beatrice was born into a privileged family which she rejected as a young adult, leaving her home and pursuing a more independent life.
In a deleted scene, she was last seen boarding the Carpathia. She has survived the disaster, but is led to believe that Rose is dead. A clearly heartbroken Ruth is seen looking for her daughter, likely realising she cared about her too late. Her character isn't seen again after this scene that didn't make the cut.
