The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

If you've ever wanted to move to Colorado, the time is perfect to start experiencing Denver. Jamie Melissa Wilms, the director of education at the Molly Brown House, joined Chloe Veltman, host of CPR's weekly arts show, The Colorado Art Report,” in studio earlier this week to talk about the narratives that unfold through these photographs. The house has been restored with period furniture and the elegance that it had when the "unsinkable Molly Brown" was alive.

But the Molly Brown House, the fashionable home of one of the sunken ship's most famous survivors, isn't new. Brown was played by Kathy Bates in James Cameron's "Titanic." In this scene, she tries to get the other women in her lifeboat to go back and rescue people from the water.

As expressed, the legacy of Margaret Brown provided a way for some of Denver's homes to maintain both the outside appearance as well as time period specific interior design. The Molly Brown Birthplace and Museum tells the story of Margaret Tobin Brown's birth and childhood during Hannibal's Gilded Age (1867-1886).

In addition to learning about Margaret's childhood in Hannibal, visitors will also hear stories of Hannibal during those years - the Irish community in Hannibal, migration of immigrants and ethnic groups westward with the coming of railways including the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, the Lumber Barons and the display of their wealth on Hannibal's Millionaires' Row (which certainly influenced Margaret as a young child), and the philanthropy and social safety nets set in place during Margaret's childhood in Hannibal that would inspire her to live a life of community service and activism.

Known today as ‘Molly' Brown, Margaret Tobin Brown was actually called ‘Maggie' by family and friends. Off-Broadway and regional: Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Love's Labor's Lost (Old Globe), My Paris (Long Wharf), Ever After (Paper Mill), Diner (Signature Theatre), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Denver Center Theatre).

This souvenir booklet gives a brief bio of the life of that "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, as well as a respectably detailed description, including historic black & white photographs, of her classic Victorian home. Kristen Iversen says Brown did not like it. The name "Molly" was often used as an insult for an Irish girl, and nobody in her own life called her that.

No one called her Molly during her lifetime — her name was Margaret — and biographer Kristen Iversen, author of "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth," writes that there's no proof she ever referred to herself as "unsinkable." The nickname seems to have originated with a Denver gossip columnist who may have been mad that Brown gave her account of the Titanic disaster to a newspaper in Newport, R.I., Road trip where she also spent time.