/>The Titanic is the best known aspect of Gibson’s life. After a six-week vacation in Italy with her mother, she was returning aboard Titanic to make a new series of pictures for Eclair at Fort Lee. The women had been playing bridge with friends in the lounge on the night of the ship’s fatal collision with the iceberg. With two of their game partners they escaped in the first lifeboat launched. After arriving in New York on the rescue ship Carpathia, Gibson was convinced by her manager to appear in a film based on the sinking. She not only starred in the one-reel drama, but wrote the scenario. She even appeared in the same clothing she had worn aboard Titanic a white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan and polo coat.
Although Saved From the Titanic was a tremendous success in America, England, and France the only known prints were destroyed in a 1914 fire at the