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.
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.
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.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet boarded the fictional version of the RMS Titanic as production kicked off in summer 1996 — when the stars were just 21 and 20, respectively.
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.
The deleted scene shows Ruth looking for Rose in the Carpathia and then Cal as well, who is relieved to see a red-haired woman he believes to be Rose, but she wasn't. This brief moment shows that Cal cared about Rose, but unfortunately, his pride and jealousy were bigger than his love and care for her.
Louise Pope lived a long life after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, but she had very little direct memory of the tragedy. She was just four years old when the ship struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in April of 1912.
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."
It was on the set of James Cameron's legendary romantic drama Titanic that Leonardo and Kate first met. Leonardo was just 22 years old at the time, and Kate a year younger at 21, when they were cast in the lead roles for a film which would throw them into global stardom.
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 turned the question on her mother who was stunned and explained the consequences if Rose does not marry Cal. Ruth would have to work as a seamstress and their fine things would be sold and they would be left with nothing. Rose accepted the inevitable as Ruth told her that this is just how things were for women.
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.
It is not known where and when the two met, but eventually became engaged and planned to be wed in the United States (their reason for boarding the RMS Titanic), despite their rather large age difference (Cal was 30 and Rose was 17 when they boarded the Titanic.)
How old are Rose and Jack in Titanic? Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet, is 17 in the movie. Jack Dawson's age is never revealed in the movie, however, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Jack, was 22 at the time the movie was filmed.
Rose changed her last name to "Dawson" to honor Jack's memory after the sinking of the Titanic. Rose completely started over and never contacted her mother and Cal again after the sinking. Rose became a successful actress in the 1920s and eventually married a man named Calvert.
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.
However a new test has led Canadian researchers to say the baby was in fact Sidney Leslie Goodwin. The British boy was on the cruise liner with the rest of his family. They had planned to start a new life in America. A further test revealed the child's mitochondria DNA molecule did not match the Panula family.
Sidney Leslie Goodwin (9 September 1910 – 15 April 1912) was a 19-month-old English boy who died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2008, mitochondrial DNA testing by bio-anthropologist Ryan Parr and the American Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory revealed his identity.
William Mintram (March 1866 – 15 April 1912) was a fireman (stoker) on the RMS Titanic until it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912. William worked for White Star Line after his release from prison for the murder of his wife.
It becomes a symbol of his loss of control over his fiancée, and to Rose, it becomes a symbol of her freedom and love for Jack. During the final moments of the boat's sinking in Titanic's ending, Cal convinces Rose to leave Jack behind and board a lifeboat.
