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When James Cameron was writing the movie, he intended for the main characters Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson to be entirely fictitious. It was only after the script was finished that he discovered that there had been a real "J. Dawson" who died aboard the Titanic. This "J. Dawson" was trimmer Joseph Dawson, who had been born September 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. His body was salvaged and buried at Fairview Lawn cemetery in Nova Scotia with many other Titanic victims. Today, his grave stone (#227) is the most widely visited in the cemetery.
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After he was paroled, James Cameron moved to Milwaukee. During his career, he held several jobs including table waiter, laborer, construction worker, laundry worker, salesman, janitor, ditch digger, record shop owner, theater custodian, junkman, newspaper reporter, shoeshine boy and cardboard-box factory worker. He ... organized the Madison County Branch of the NAACP in Madison and other chapters in Muncie and South Bend, Indiana. Upon retirement, he opened a rug and upholstery cleaning business.
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James Cameron wrote the script and is of course directing the movie. He is ... producing it, along with Jon Landau. Josh McLaglen, who was 1st AD on Titanic, is attached as associate producer. The cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, CCH Pounder and Laz Alonso.
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In the months since Titanic was released, James Cameron has become the most famous Canadian in the world. Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario 43 years ago but he spent most of his childhood in Chippewa, near Niagara Falls. He would frequently take the bus to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to sketch the antiquities (a skilled artist, all of the sketches in the movie attributed to the artist played by DiCaprio were actually drawn by Cameron, including the famous nude sketch of Kate Winslet.) Cameron moved to California with his family at the age of 17. He began in the film industry as a gofer working on low budget exploitation movies.
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James Cameron was adamant about not including any song in the movie, even over the closing credits. Composer James Horner secretly arranged with lyricist Will Jennings and singer Céline Dion to write "My Heart Will Go On" and record a demo tape, which he then presented to Cameron. The song won an Oscar.
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Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, James Cameron grew up in Niagara Falls. He moved to Brea, California in 1971 where he studied physics at Fullerton College while working as a machinist and, later, a truck driver. Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his trucking job in 1978 and raised money from a consortium of dentists in Tustin, California, to produce a short film in 35mm. He served as producer, director, co-writer, editor, miniature builder, cinematographer and special effects supervisor on the production.
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