The scene where an elderly couple are hugging on the bed while water rushes underneath depicts owners of Macy’s department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss. They 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.” 

(Source: filmtrivia, via spumonis)