Four days later, Gibson “spent a pleasant Sunday evening playing bridge with a couple of friendly New York bankers,” as she later told the New York Dramatic Mirror, according to the Encyclopedia Titanica. Soon after she joined her mother in their stateroom at around 11:40 p.m., Gibson heard “a long drawn, sickening crunch.” After venturing out to investigate and seeing ” how lopsided the deck was,” she went back for her mother and the two made their way to the lifeboats. Gibson later relayed to Moving Picture World: “I will never forget the terrible cry that rang out from people who were thrown into the sea and others who were afraid for their loved ones.”

Barely a month later, safely back in the United States, Gibson played the role of Miss Dorothy (seen above) and is credited with co-writing the screenplay of the film Saved From The Titanic, the first movie made about the Titanic disaster. Gibson “was hesitant about reliving her ordeal so quickly after the tragedy” but did so anyway, and the movie received excellent reviews. It was her last movie; she moved into a career as an opera singer, which didn’t last long. She later settled in France with her mother. During World War II, she was arrested by the Gestapo in Italy as “a resistance agitator” and sent to San Vittore Prison in Milan. She escaped from prison in 1944 and died of heart failure in 1946 at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.