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In movie theaters, you’ll find James Cameron’s Avatar literally raking in billions of dollars world-wide, presently the top money-making film of all time. The record-holder before that was also directed and written by James Cameron, 1997′s Titanic . This film also took in over a billion dollars, and showed that interest in the 1912 maritime disaster has never quite subsided. The ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic has created a number of movies — Saved from the Titanic, 1912; Titanic, 1943; Titanic, 1953; A Night to Remember, 1958; S.O.S. Titanic, 1979; Raise the Titanic, 1980; Titanic, 1996, ending with Cameron’s version. There’s one thing each of these films have in common, aside from icebergs, and that’s the character of Titanic survivor Molly Brown, who once lived in Denver, Colorado.

Molly Brown lived 65 years, from 1867 to 1932, and was better known as Maggie Brown. After her death, she became known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. An American philanthropist and socialite, Molly Brown found fame when she persuaded lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors in the icy waters after the ship went under.

If you have a passion for all things Titanic, then you might already know about the Molly Brown House Museum . The home stands at 1340 Pennsylvania Avenue, and was built in 1889, for a couple who made a fortune mining silver. It’s designed by William Lang and is a combination of various architectural styles, from Queen Anne, to Neoclassical, to Romanesque. The home is composed in part of stained glass windows, wood panels, rhyolite stone and red sandstone.

Stay overnight in Denver at your choice of a number of fine places , and explore not only the museum but the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the site where many in the 1880s settled after making their millions by way of the woods, the railroads, or mountains.

Once you’ve settled in for the night, you may wish to ask the concierge if they have any DVDs of the Titanic movies and compare what you’ve learned about Molly Brown at the house with the way Hollywood has portrayed her over the last 98 years.