 In the scene where an elderly couple are hugging on the bed while  water rushes underneath depicts the founding owners of Macys  department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss. They actually  died on the Titanic in real life. Ida was offered a seat on a  lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband saying,  "As we have lived together, so we shall die together." There was a  scene that depicted this moment, it was cut but it can be see on the  Special Collecters DVD