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Did Rose ever let her family know she was alive?


I know she resented them, but I would hope somewhere over the years, she alerted them she was alive.

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Maybe she updated her Facebook status.

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LOL, good one🤔😑

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Doubtful. She wanted nothing to do with them or their lifestyle. As far as Rose was concerned, this was a completely clean slate.

Getting in contact with them would mean a chance of them getting a grasp of her. They were all dead to her anyway. She despised all of them.
The "Goodbye Mother" was most definately meant as just that.

And dont forget, their golden ticket literally tried to murder her.

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It was implied she did not and even took Jack's last name hiding her identity. She started over in America.

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Likely no, but if she became an actress as it was said of her, her family would have recognized her, so likely a writing screwup.

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Maybe her mother died before she became an actress.

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Quite possibly. Although the pictures of Rose as an actress on Old Rose's beside gallery showed her as still young, there's no saying her mother would not have died from a heart attack shortly after losing Rose (the rigors of being a seamstress and scratching out a living or begging from friends after being privileged all those years would be enormous) and presumably her bankroll future son in law. I doubt he would have helped Rose's mom. If she was 17 when the Titanic sank she would have been early 30s when she became an actress presumably after Cal died in 1929.

As far as the rest of her family? Maybe her cover simply wasn't important anymore to her if they recognized her once her mother and Cal was dead. The only sticky part of the wicket is that the rumor of the actress being on the Titanic would have stuck somewhat.

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yeah you're right, the pictures of her don't seem to be taken long after the titanic sank. but then again for the makers of the film, to show some digitally aged pictures of rose later on, could have been a pain for them and not the worth the hassle... or they just didn't care.

we don't know, it was never made clear. this is the "problem" with film, the story ends with the script. it's not real life where theres always an answer.

roses' mother didn't seem that old, but maybe she died a few years later, or maybe rose did get in contact, it was 1912, telephones didn't really exist as a household thing until the 1920s, even if her mother knew she was still alive, getting in contact wouldn't be easy.

it's not difficult to believe that maybe rose wrote her mother a letter, explaining she was alive and didn't want anything to do with cal and the life she left behind. i don't think rose hated her mother, i'm guessing she felt more sorry for her.

but who knows if there was ever any contact.

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You forget that the story never said she went to California and got into moving pictures, so she would have only been an actress on stage, and chances aren't very high that Ruth would have attended any plays her daughter was in, because she would have been too poor to afford a ticket. By then, Ruth would have been working as a seamstress in a dirty, cramped attic, spending 18 hours a day sewing for pennies on the dollar, too busy to go to any theaters.

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You forget that the story never said she went to California and got into moving pictures..


The story also never said she didn't.

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Chances are, she avoided her mom and made sure she never saw her again. It was no less than Ruth deserved, all things considered.

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NOT sure how much family she had aside from her mother

AND without the meal-ticket future son in law where was she going

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I think she would have reached out to her mother. She may have despised the situation her mother put her in but she still loved her. When she said goodbye she most likely thought she would never see her mother again. Rose had grown strong enough to stand up for what she wanted and not what was best for her mom. I find it very likely she achieved all she did even with that mother in her life.

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No she didn’t. Her mother was a horrible person, Rose was better off without her.

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If you had an abusive, controlling mother that tried selling you off to an asshole just so she could live comfortably at your expense, do you think you would want to ever contact her again? The Ruth bitch got what she deserved; which included never seeing her daughter ever again and living poor for the rest of her life.

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