Did Molly Brown really survive a flood as an infant?

[Dan Kappes]

At the beginning of the 1964 film The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Molly Brown is seen surviving a flood in Colorado when she was six months old. Her cradle is seen floating down a rushing river and once it sinks, she walks on shore slowly and apparently unfazed, and she is eventually adopted by a farmer.

Is this a true story, and if so how did an infant like her get in a flood and did her parents drown in it?

Also, could an infant really survive a thing like that?

 

[Dave Gittins]

It's just an invention, like the name Molly. Margaret Brown didn't go to Colorado until she was eighteen. Read her biography on this site for some amazing facts.