2nd Class on the RMS Titanic?

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Every Titanic movie I’ve seen focuses on 2 sets of characters; 1st class passengers and 3rd class passengers. Sometimes the crew gets focus too. I can’t recall ever seeing a movie that had 2nd class passengers as characters. I understand why 1st & 3rd gets attention because of the huge contrast in wow they were treated and survival rates, but are there any movies that include a 2nd class subplot or characters?

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I remember a sub-plot in one film that involved a romance between second class passengers. The man was a teacher I think. Possibly it was A Night to Remember?

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I know of no such movies, but permit me to recommend this book for an excellent, copiously-illustrated exploration of all things Titanic: http://www.amazon.com/Titanic-Illustrated-History-Donald-Lynch/dp/078581972X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290906117&sr=1-1

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I think this was the 1979 tv movie S.O.S. Titanic had the second class sub plot. Susan Saint James and David Warner was the couple involved.

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The 1997 musical prominently featured two second-class couples, and one of the best real accounts of the sinking (“The Loss of the SS Titanic”) was published by second-class schoolteacher Lawrence Beesley.

Second class was quite nice for the time; they had their own lounges and reading rooms, etc. In fact, one of the only black passengers on the ship was an upper-class engineer returning to Haiti with his French wife and two daughters, and when the French liner they were going to take first-class said the children had to eat in a separate dining room, they willingly took second-class tickets on the Titanic instead and found it more comfortable than the older liners’ first-class in some ways. The categories were not as fixed as you’d believe from movies or books, first-class started at a relatively low price for a tiny room and there were plenty of middle-class tourists and educated people like governesses in third class.

Men from the second class were the ones who were rescued in the smallest percentage, with only ten percent surviving as opposed to 31% of the first class (they were notified first and were closest to the lifeboats, although almost all the richest went down with the boat) and 14% of the steerage male passengers. 81% of the second class women and children made it off including little Louise Laroche, who never made it Haiti.

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Thanks. Yes, that’s the one I remember