Dorothy Gibson (born Dorothy Winifred Brown; May 17, 1889 – February 17, 1946) was an American actress, socialite and artist's model, active in the early 20th century. She survived the sinking of the Titanic and starred in the first motion picture based on the disaster.

Dorothy Gibson, 22, of New York, New York, was born Dorothy Winifred Brown in Hoboken, New Jersey, the daughter of John A. and Pauline Boesen Brown. John Brown died when Dorothy was a child and her mother married John Leonard Gibson.

Dorothy Gibson. Actress: Saved from the Titanic. Dorothy Winnifred Brown was born at the home of her parents, Pauline Caroline Boesen Brown and John Brown on May 17, 1889 at 320 Willow Avenue in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Apr 7, 2012 · One rare exception is the women seen on the April 8, 1911 cover: Dorothy Gibson. We know her name because she was a favorite subject of Harrison Fisher . And we know her because of a fateful decision she made one year after this magazine cover appeared, when she chose to sail on the RMS Titanic.

Miss Dorothy Winifred Gibson was an American silent film actress, model, and Titanic survivor who gained fame for starring in the first motion picture about the disaster, “Saved from the Titanic,” just one month after the ship’s sinking.

Saved from the Titanic was a 1912 American silent short film starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United States just 31 days after the event, it was the earliest dramatization of the tragedy.

Feb 28, 2022 · Born Dorothy Winifred Brown, Dorothy Gibson was a silent film actress who starred in a movie about the Titanic disaster — just a month after surviving it. Her silent film career was in full swing by the time she survived the historic disaster.

Dorothy Gibson. Actress: Saved from the Titanic. Dorothy Winnifred Brown was born at the home of her parents, Pauline Caroline Boesen Brown and John Brown on May 17, 1889 at 320 Willow Avenue in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Silent screen star Dorothy Gibson survived the Titanic, a disastrous marriage, and a World War II concentration camp, but history didn't spare her.

Among the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic who reached port on the rescue ship Carpathia were Miss Dorothy Gibson, leading woman of the American forces of the Eclair Motion Pictures Company, and her mother, Mrs. Pauline C. Gibson. Miss Gibson tells a stirring tale of her experiences on board the Titanic as well as in the open lifeboat in ...