
Smith ( Brian Aherne), receives a hint from the shipping company representative that a record-setting speedy passage would be welcomed. He discovers she is trying to take their two unsuspecting children, 18-year-old Annette ( Audrey Dalton) and ten-year-old Norman ( Harper Carter), to her hometown of Mackinac Island, Michigan, to rear them as down-to-earth Americans rather than rootless elitists like Richard himself.Īs the ship prepares for departure, her captain, Edward J. Once aboard he seeks out his runaway wife, Julia ( Barbara Stanwyck). At the last minute, a wealthy American expatriate in Europe, Richard Sturges ( Clifton Webb), asks a man for a steerage-class ticket (the lowest class) for the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic from a Basque immigrant.
