Trivia: The reception room's double doors leading into the first class dining saloon only have bronze grilles in the movie. In 1912, there was actually a pane of glass in each door with the grilles behind them on the dining room side. On the collector's DVD commentary, James Cameron mentions they didn't discover this until a later Titanic expedition in 2001 - that's why this is trivia, rather than a mistake.
Trivia: When Titanic was re-released in 3D in theaters in April 2012 in conjunction with the centennial anniversary of the sinking, NBC News did a story on Nightly News. One of the things they mentioned is that an astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson, noticed in the original 1997 release that when Leonardo DiCaprio is lying on a bench looking at the night sky, the constellations are not correct based on the time of year and the location on earth they are being viewed from. Director James Cameron became aware of this error, and corrected the constellations in the night sky for the re-release in 2012.
Trivia: On set, Cameron was a furious perfectionist, often angering the crew with his attention to detail and furious nature. Eventually, one crew member got back at him by pouring a large amount of drugs into the food served to the rest of the cast and crew. 160 people ended up hospitalized due to the effects of the drug (although Cameron was not among them), and the poisoner was never caught.
Trivia: During the "Let's stretch her legs" scene, the engine room returns the command confirmation to the captain's deck of "All ahead full." The lead in the engine room yells out "All ahead full," and someone off camera repeats the line. The voice repeating the line is James Cameron himself.
Trivia: The shot of the lifeboats sailing towards the Carpathia was the only one in the film that was actually taken at sea.
Trivia: The scene at the end when everyone is running and the priest is saying "As I walk through the valley of death" to which an annoyed Jack responds "Could you walk a little faster" was taken from 1969's Paint Your Wagon where Lee Marvin and the preacher have the exact same exchange when fleeing the cave collapse.
Trivia: The seaman who is on the boat that returns and eventually saves Rose is Ioan Gruffudd in a very early role, portrayer of Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movies, the short-lived show Forever, and the Hornblower series. He's also shown after the seaman says "Get back, I say, or I'll shoot you all like dogs!"
Chosen answer: Because she is considered, in a minor sense, a "villain" in this film for forcing her daughter into a loveless arranged marriage to satisfy her personal wants, most fans probably speculate that she became a poor and penniless seamstress and lived out her life working in a factory. Of course, this is possible, without the financial security of the arranged marriage between Cal and Rose. However, it is difficult to believe that a woman of such status, and who has so many wealthy and powerful friends, would be allowed to languish in abject poverty doing menial labors. I would tend to believe that she probably sold a number of her possessions for money (she did mention that as part of the humiliation she would face if Rose were to refuse Cal's affections), and probably lived off the kindness of others. Given that her daughter was betrothed to a Hockley, his family might have felt an obligation to assist her in finding a suitable living arrangement and a situation for employment. It is also possible that she re-married into wealth. However, this is more unlikely, mainly because back in 1912, it was considered scandalous to re-marry, especially at Ruth's age. However, since Ruth does not make an appearance after surviving the sinking of the Titanic in a lifeboat number 6 (next to Molly Brown), nor is she mentioned again, her fate is left unknown and subject only to speculation.
Michael Albert
In that era, with Rose betrothed to Call, Cal would most definitely have provided for Ruth in the lifestyle she was accustomed to. As Cal angrily raged at Rose the morning after her excursion below decks, "You are my wife in custom if not yet in practice ", thus, society would have viewed him a villain had he not cared for Ruth once it was assumed Rose was dead.