4. Ismay didn’t reduce the number of Titanic’s lifeboats, but he did care about the ship’s appearance. An oft-repeated story meant to illustrate the vanity and villainy of J. Bruce Ismay ...

Bruce Ismay—chairman of the company that owned the Titanic—took a seat and rode ... and just as we had re-created it for the movie. It was a surreal moment, fiction and reality merging in ...