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Please will you tell me what's going on, Robert. People have been rushing about and noises overhead. |
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Liz Lucas is a fictional character in A Night to Remember (1958). She was the wife of Robbie Lucas and was traveled with her husband and three children as a first class passengers aboard the Titanic. She was portrayed by Honor Blackman.
Role in the film[]
Liz Lucas lulling her daughters to sleep
She and her family occupied a cabin on the A deck, right in front of the Grand Staircase and next to the Edith Louise Rosenbaum's cabin. She first appeared before the Titanic hit the iceberg, lulling her three children to sleep.
Robbie Lucas put on a necklace on Liz Lucas
When the Titanic was sinking, her husband asked Thomas Andrews what was going on, and knowing that the Titanic was about to sink, she was persuaded by her husband to go to the lifeboat. Her husband put on a necklace to her and told her to wake up their daughters.
"Robbie, i can't...i can't leave you here..."
She and her husband and their three children headed to Lifeboat 4, looking at Mrs. Charlotte Collyer who was cries because she doesn't want to leave her husband. Liz immediately realized that men were not allowed to board the lifeboats and said that she would not leave her husband too.
"Say goodbye..."
Robbie immediately assured her that everyone who remained on the ship would be quite safe. Although not sure, she agreed and took the children into Lifeboat 4 and said goodbye to her husband.
Liz Lucas with her three children onboard the Carpathia
Liz did not appear again until she and her children were rescued at RMS Carpathia. Realizing that her husband had died and that she was now a widow, she and her children prayed for the victims who did not survive together.
Trivia[]
- Mrs. Liz Lucas and her husband are composites of several married couples, notably Mr. Lucian Smith and Mrs. Mary Smith. Lucas even says the words actually spoken by Lucian Smith to his wife: "I never expected to ask you to obey me, but this is one time you must".
- The scene where Liz Lucas's husband attaches a necklace to her seems to inspire a scene in the 1997 film Titanic, when Caledon Hockley pairs the Heart of the Ocean to Rose.